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Another implementation choice we decided on was LocalStorage as our backend option due to the ease of use and the lack of necessity of setting up a backend. This led to a couple of issues because LocalStorage only stores strings and not ints or objects, whereas most of our data was stored as objects. We utilize various JSON parsing and JSON strings to store large objects as strings and then parse these strings for objects at the beginning of load for each page. This way we can keep the data consistent. However this led to a lot of issues early on.
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Evaluation
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Reflection
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"Planning ahead is invaluable" - When the first step taken involves writing code, things get messy very quickly. It does not cost much (with regard to time, effort, etc.) to first think about general strategy and structure before even touching or thinking about specifics. This gives the project a much clearer direction, and allows you to focus on the specifics when they do finally become relevant.
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