Hi, I just finished the tribute page project and submitted it using a codepen URL, It accepted it without issue but didn’t give any feedback or anything.
So I tried to submit another codepen URL, this time blank so it should not have been successful and it still accepted it.
Tried this with the other projects following this one and it worked as well.
I don’t think they will give any feedback. I submitted mine yesterday as well and it was just that, a submission. If you want feedback, you can make a post about your submission in the Project Feedback subforum( I think that’s what it’s called). I posted mine yesterday. So far only one feedback…
Actually, I think they allow for people to submit any link as long as it’s to their project. Because although they recommend you to use Codepen, you’re allowed to build it any other way you want. Whether you build it locally and then push to Heroku and share it from there also works. So I don’t think they check for a valid codepen html web address.
They might not have made the submission system quite as robust as we expect it. I think it’s based on a trust system, but i could be wrong. I’ve only been on FCC a handful of days
I moved your post over to the contributors section.
As of right now, it will accept any live link that is not a FCC template.
Maybe in the future, the software will be able to detect the correct project links.
It is always been on the honor system for campers to submit the correct link.
Also, if any of the moderators or staff finds out that a camper did not submit their own work then their certificate can be revoked.
The freeCodeCamp team is really small and currently busy working on other projects.
I would just view the certificates as personal goals.
Employers won’t take a whole lot of consideration for them because FCC is not the same as an accredited institution.
The most important part is the learning and what you can build with the skills you learned from FCC.
you need to use the provided test suite, passing all the tests of the suite is the minimum requirements to submit the projec, then you can ask for feedback in Code Feedback for peer review
On each project, just above where you can submit your URL there’s a link to the test suite: https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/testable-projects-fcc/v1/bundle.js
If you drop that into a script element in your HTML just before your closing body tag, you should be run the tests from the top right (it’s a green burger menu you click on then choose the correct test suite for your project from the drop-down).