In this episode, we tackle a pretty practical issue: making sure users can't book times that have already passed for today. Right now, our schedule is showing timeslots from 9 AM onward, even if someone's looking at it at 12:40 PM. That doesn't make much sense!
We walk through a quick change to our availability logic: we create a new method called excludeTimePastToday
(or similar depending on your code) and update our system so it only allows booking from the current hour (plus a little buffer) onward. This means if it's currently 12 o'clock, bookings can only be made starting at 1 PM, giving us a handy bit of breathing room between when someone books and when the slot starts.
We also show you how to tweak this logic if you want a shorter or longer buffer—it's pretty flexible. At the end of the video, we set up our application to test this new behavior, and everything looks good: only future times are bookable.
That's a wrap for the availability logic! Next up, we'll start testing these changes to make sure they work in all sorts of scenarios, so stay tuned for that.