Submitted by: Rahul Gupta
This web app: allows developers, specifically students, to share their cool projects with others! Check it out here: https://devsharehub.netlify.app/
Time spent: 20 hours spent in total
The following required functionality is completed:
- A create form that allows the user to create posts
- Posts have a title and optionally additional textual content and/or an image added as an external image URL
- A home feed displaying previously created posts
- By default, the time created, title, and number of upvotes for each post is shown on the feed
- Clicking on a post shall direct the user to a new page for the selected post
- Users can sort posts by either their created time or upvotes count
- Users can search for posts by title
- A separate post page for each created post, where any additional information is shown is linked whenever a user clicks a post
- Users can leave comments underneath a post on the post's separate page
- Each post should have an upvote button on the post's page. Each click increases its upvotes count by one and users can upvote any number of times
- A previously created post can be edited or deleted from its post page
The following optional features are implemented:
- Users can only edit and deleted posts or delete comments by entering the secret key, which is set by the user during post creation
- Upon launching the web app, the user is assigned a random user ID. It will be associated with all posts and comments that they make and displayed on them.
- Users can repost a previous post by referencing its post ID. On the post page of the new post, the referenced post is displayed and linked, creating a thread
- Users can customize the interface of the web app
- Users can share and view web videos
- Users can set flags while creating a post. Then users can filter posts by flags on the home feed.
- Users can upload images directly from their local machine as an image file
- Display a loading animation whenever data is being fetched
The following additional features are implemented:
- Wesbite is responsive, and I tried to make it look nice on mobile
- Custom favicon and website renamed in browser
- Project is deployed on netlify
Here's a walkthrough of the website:
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Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- Incredibly busy week, had two other projects to work on, so I wasn't able to hit all the stretch features :(
- I learned that you can pass a component from one prop to another even if they aren't nested, and you use useOutletContext to do so. I had to learn this to make the navbar search work on all screens.
- Getting responsivenes to be just right was also challenging
- Had an issue with deployment where I included single quotes in the environment variable section which caused nothing to appear.
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