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My Submission to the awesome HACK-R-PLAY hackathon by ReactPlay
I am a self-taught developer from Sri Lanka with a passion for learning new technologies. Currently proficient in HTML, CSS, JS, ReactJS, Python, Next.js and learning Flutter and Electron.
Looks interesting, will give it a try for sure.
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The second edition of ReactPlay Hackathon is here!
Hi, there developers! It's Ammaar here. In this article, I'd like to introduce to you all, the latest project that I've worked on as part of the HACK-R-PLAY hackathon conducted by ReactPlay. So without any further ado let's dive in!
WriteOnce - A Markdown Editor For Devs Who Blog.
Now, I know what you're thinking from the above line. "Another markdown editor 🙄" Yes, I agree that it is in fact another markdown editor, but this one's a bit different, trust me.
As a developer, it is always encouraged to start blogging. You can start by building out your own one, cuz why not. Or you could opt-in to use a blogging platform like Hashnode, Dev.to, Medium, etc.
Either choice you make, there's going to come a day when you decide to tag along on and publish on multiple platforms. Even now there are tons of developers who do that. Now if you take me for instance, I started out blogging through hashnode and now I'm wanting to try out Dev.to and publish my articles there as well.
The sort of inconvenience I faced after making the decision was choosing a markdown editor. I could either write the article in the Hashnode editor and then paste the content in the Dev.to editor and publish or vice versa.
So this is where WriteOnce comes into play. It's essentially a place where you can write articles, save them, delete them, etc and offers certain features/automation to improve the blogging experience of a developer. One of which, I'm starting out within this MVP is the automation of publishing to different platforms through the application itself.
I'm publishing this as an MVP and I'm planning on adding more and more features to it down the line. So here are some features it currently offers:
The only barrier that I initially thought I would have when building the application was Nhost. I had this thought because I hadn't used it before. But when actually working with Nhost, I found it to be really easy to adopt in my workflow. It offers tons of features like authentication, storage, DB, GraphQL API just to name a few.
The documentation of Nhost is what I mostly relied on when working with Nhost and it didn't let me down, so kudos to the ones behind the documentation 😘
The main thing that I'd say that I have learned from building this project is using Nhost and Hasura. I previously had zero knowledge in both and now I can say that I'm catching onto it. Apart from these I also brushed up on advanced concepts of GraphQL and using the Apollo Client.
As I mentioned earlier, I haven't built out everything perfectly as I intended. instead, I've built the essential building blocks of WriteOnce. So here are some plans/future updates I have in mind for WriteOnce:
.md file to be used externally.Feel free to drop you thoughts as well in the comments down below.
Well, we've come to the end of the article. Thank you very much for taking the time for reading this. If you enjoyed reading and find this article useful, consider liking and sharing it with others. And I'd like to take this opportunity once again to thank ReactPlay and Nhost for conducting this hackathon. And I'm glad that I was able to share WriteOnce with you all as part of it.
Looking forward to more Hackathons by ReactPlay and Nhost 🤩