Submitted by: Shi Wei Zheng
This web app: A discussion forum for anime and manga lovers.
Time spent: 20 hours spent in total
Link to app: https://aandm-discussion.netlify.app/
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:
- List anything else that you added to improve the site's functionality!
- Use Anilist API to get currently trending anime and manga
- Use Firebase 9 for
- User authentication
- Database
Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:
Walkthrough.mp4
Video created with ShareX
Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.
- This is my first time using Firebase so I ran into a few difficulties. I had to research how to incorporate the service into my app and use the various functions provided by the service. I ran into problems like not being able to update user information and getting the data that I needed from the Firestore database. It was confusing at first, but after trying out different methods of overcoming the challenges and searching for possible solutions, I was able to understand how the authentication and database function in Firebase.
- It was confusing to fetch data from the Anilist API since it uses GraphQL instead of REST API. Not understanding how GraphQL works, I had trouble fetching the data I needed. Even though I followed the documentation, I had to do other research on how to fetch the data. Many trials and error were done to solve a lot of the challenges I encountered.
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