Enrolling Students - Building SaaS #64

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Matt Layman

Posted on October 29, 2020

Enrolling Students - Building SaaS #64

In this episode, we worked on a view to enroll students into a grade level for the school year. I added all the context data and used Tailwind to design the form layout to pick from a list of available grade levels. We added a variety of unit tests to prove the correctness.

The enrollment page needed three pieces of data in the context to complete the form. We added the student, school_year, and grade_levels data to the context and wrote tests to show the data in there. We also protected that data from any erroneous access by another user.

When the data was set, we worked on the template for the form. I set the header to make the enrollment action clear and created the radio input selectors to show the different grade level options. We cleaned up the design and user experience by including some Tailwind CSS classes which made the radio inputs much easier to select.

At the end of the stream, we wrote the happy path test for the POST request to prove that the enrollment record exists after submission.

This article first appeared on mattlayman.com.

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mblayman
Matt Layman

Posted on October 29, 2020

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