DEVLOG #3

Today I worked on just the signup endpoint and the password hashing. I basically made an endpoint which would take all the collected data: full_name, username, email, hashed_password, role, team_name and use it to create team and user on the database. I have successfully implemented the basic idea that I had but it currently has no error handling like duplicate user checking or existing username.

So, what I thought was to keep a single endpoint and do the data validation at the end when the api call is made by querying the database first to check for unique email and username. But, That was not good user flow according to me, and I was looking for something like this:

PAGE-1:

1. Enter full name
2. Enter email
3. set password
4. Submit button
   Then we will internally check if the email exists or not. If it exists show “account already exists, login instead”. If the email does not exist then move into the next page.

PAGE-2:

1. Set Username
   Check if username exists. If username already exists, show the error “username already taken” else move onto the next page.

PAGE-3:

1. Choose if signing up as a business or as an individual.

PAGE-4:

1. Set team name if applicable.

All the data required for the database entry for user creation is complete so after a few more random onboarding steps, commit all the collected data to the database to make the team and the user.

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Basically this is the whole signup flow that I want with the most basic data collected from the user initially. Now what I want it some way to check the validity live on every page and I do not know how to do that. I will need to display the error messages and all through JS though I don’t know if I can also query the database live through JS to do some live validation. I will not learn this FastAPI concept and try to implement it in my API