I’ve just been dipping my toes into playing with Node modules / frameworks. Yesterday, I was working on an idea I got from a YouTube video - web scraping the Intel code names wikipedia entry to spit out a random code name to use for projects.
I ended up deploying it on Heroku and Git. The whole thing is a mess and the code is terrible, but I learned about a lot of things I either knew little or nothing about, like request, express, git, heroku, cheerio, and ejs.
Actually having any success while learning is great; it makes me feel like I might actually be able to understand many of these more complicated concepts at some point.
I’m working in a web compilation of math tools done by myself in JS React.
I’m also trying to see if I can finish my collaborative jukebox project for a party á la dubtrack.fm.
I’m currently working on an app that finds your location and get info about city you are in (weather, images, maps etc). You can use geolocator (inside the browser) or type name.
Wow! compared to everyone else mine is basic. I’m working on a website dedicated to my city. It code strictly using html and css with out any bootstrap. I’ll implement a google map and random animations to the site using javascript & jquery .
There isn’t anything basic about that, @dbivs08 . Especially doing it without Bootstrap. You don’t have to work with a lot of languages, other tools, or databases to build amazing things. Besides, the more you understand JS easier it will be to pick up other laguanges as you need/want to.
Some of my favorite things online are ingenious HTMl, CSS and JS creations.
Thank you for your thoughts @ronbecker :). Hopefully I get to the point where I building apps on my own instead of just websites LOL. I’ll get there though.
I’m working on software to manage a pool league I run. Most leagues are for teams and based on 8 or 9 ball. Mine is singles based, based on straight pool, and allows great flexibility by players to arrange their own matches when they are available, instead of making everyone play at the same time. It’s handicapped, of course.
I am using Javascript for an app to keep score, and will use WordPress for authentication, user management, membership, payments, blogging, and other things. Will be using custom tables and MySQL to hold data about matches, etc and produce reports and charts/graphs to keep users up to date on how they are doing as well as how they are progressing over time.
Would love to hear from someone with a serious interest in pool to discuss this project.
Love the variety of interesting things everyone is doing – there’s no wrong way to do side-projects as long as you’re learning something new in the process! (or earning a living from it if you’re so lucky)
I’m currently juggling a couple different ones. Some friends and I are currently working on a prototype for a web-app to connect businesses with food waste to non-profits that serve those in need.
I also recently started playing around with making a React library to recreate deprecated HTML tags like <blink> and <marquee> called retroactive. I’ve not gotten far with it, but it’s already a silly joke taken way too far
I have created a Random Music Player for myself. I like listening to music during programming. So created a simple web app that picks a random song from youtube and plays it. Refresh to get another random.
You can try it here. Short url is anysong.tk. Suggestions for improvements are welcomed.
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