AN FE Dev spent 8 HOURS on his LONG WEEKEND working on this

Here's what happened to him!!!

About me

FE Engineer @ Shopee

Singaporean 🇸🇬

https://twitter.com/tzyinc

https://tenzhiyang.com/

http://codepen.io/tzyinc

More imptly...

  • Have too many things I want to do
    • FE? BE? AI? Hardware? 
    • In the process of moving house during CB (It's legal!)
    • Prepping to propose (She'll never see this)
  • Bad at prioritising
    • instant gratification driven
    • Animal crossing is too fun

Wait but why

Weekly challenges

https://cassidoo.co/newsletter/

 

Design a simplified version of Twitter,

where users can post tweets, follow/unfollow others, and is able to see the 10 most recent tweets in the user’s news feed.
Some useful functions to include would be 

getNewsFeed(userid)
postTweet(userid, tweet)
unfollow(follower, followee)
follow(follower, followee)

Self imposed goals

  • Fully functional subset of twitter
  • lightweight
  • Learn a new framework
  • Cannot be ugly
  • less than 1 day's worth of effort

Feature list

  • Hash to identify users instead of auth
  • Able to post under any name
  • Search by usernames
  • list all posts, pagination
  • follow/unfollow by locally stored usernames
  • BONUS: have a reply/RT type of functionality

My process to prototyping quickly

maybe only for hackathons/side projects

Big picture view because details dont matter (yet)

but maybe unavoidable for some cases

Working

on FE

Working

on BE

Me

Me

Working

on FE

Working

on BE

and often not the goal of your app

+

but maybe think about the DOM structure for later

No frills backend

  • node
  • express
  • lokijs/sqlite

No frills deployment

  • Clone & pull
  • Nginx
  • certbot
  • http server
  • tmux/screen

Svelte/Sapper

What does svelte do?

https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0f910048478c2a6505d1c32185b61934

kinda like Reactjs

kinda like Nextjs

https://github.com/sw-yx/ssg

kinda like Gatsby

Pictured: me reading instructions

<------ Gave up right here

What I did with Svelte

Svelte

React

let parentTwat;
// fetch logic here
parentTwat = twatResponse.twats[0];
const [ 
	parentTwat,
    setParentTwat,
] = useState(null);
// fetch logic here
setParentTwat(twatResponse.twats[0]);

Svelte

React

 {#if !!parentTwat}
    <div class="parent">
      <div class="top">
        <div>
          <div class="name">
          	{parentTwat.username}
          </div>
          <div class="id">
          	{parentTwat.userId}
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="time">
          {parentTwatTime}
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="twatContent">
      	{parentTwat.content}
      </div>
    </div>
  {/if}
{ parentTwat &&(
    <div class="parent">
      <div class="top">
        <div>
          <div class="name">
          	{parentTwat.username}
          </div>
          <div class="id">
          	{parentTwat.userId}
          </div>
        </div>
        <div class="time">
          {parentTwatTime}
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="twatContent">
      	{parentTwat.content}
      </div>
    </div>
)}

Svelte

React

export let segment;
const { segment } = this.props

Svelte

React

{#each twats as twat(twat.twatId)}
  <Twat {twat} />
{/each}
{ Twats.map(twat => 
	<Twat
    	twat={twat}
        key={twat.twatid}]
    />
)}

Events based communication

if (sendTweetObj.success) {
  const successEvent = new CustomEvent("twatSuccess", {});
  window.dispatchEvent(successEvent);
}
<svelte:window on:twatSuccess={twatSuccess} on:twatFollow={twatSuccess} />

On the whole experience

Some thoughts

  • Time spent: 8 hours
    • 2 on backend
    • 6 on frontend
  • Rough understanding on svelte
  • Refresh on vanilla js
  • Sapper seems pretty good for blogs

https://twatter.tenzhiyang.com

twitter, but for twats

Would I do it again?

No 

maybe end of 2020

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