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Product and Code Series: Gathering early product feedback, and understanding the application.html.erb file


In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) continue the Product and Code series that I started in Episode 128 to talk about how to best collect feedback on your initial idea and what the application.html.erb file is in a Ruby on Rails app. I walk through the head tag, briefly discuss the Content Security Policy (CSP) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tags, and then showcase different parts of how the application layout file constructs the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to be sent to a requesting browser.

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0:00 - Recap the series that started back with Episode 128 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learn-web2-web3-product-management-and-software/id1523559862?i=1000590794177)

0:40 - Product tip - get feedback from friends of friends that fit your target customer

2:20 - Walk through the application.html.erb file in a Ruby on Rails app. Talking through Content Security Policy (https://www.stackhawk.com/blog/rails-content-security-policy-guide-what-it-is-and-how-to-enable-it/) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (https://samuelmullen.com/articles/csrf-protection-and-ruby-on-rails)

5:12 - Walking through the “View Source” that the application.html.erb file outputs to the browser.