At the start of this week I worked with other teammates to create a universal set of ESLint and Prettier configurations that all of us can use across our editors and IDEs. The idea is to get us on the same page formatting-wise so that we can avoid unnecessary merge conflicts that arise from different editor configurations. I feel like this would be particularly important in this project, because we are all going to be editing much of the same files. I also contributed to editing the product canvas.
This week has been mostly researching AWS services that we might integrate into our app. We started looking at AWS Amplify for bootstrapping an app with authentication and API's with code generation for all possible handlers. This is a nice approach, and it seems to be how AWS services are designed to be used--all or nothing.
Currently I am looking into how to use AWS solely for authentication using their Cognito service. Cognito user pools would essentially take the place of our users table, which is not the pr