Ömer: Individual Project, 2

[omerjava]

Week 1

Check-In

I Need Help With:

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What went well?

• In a fews days, I get used to Strapi and managed to build a handsome chat app. I will complete and deploy in following days.
• I am suprised actually how Strapi make things easier in backend. I was struggling doing similar things with a lot of efforts in Express.
• I realized what went wrong during CMS module when I start to restudy Strapi. When I was clone and study from CMS module (with npm install), it was ok, but when I try to follow Strapi website instruction to setup new project, there was an error. It happen again when I started to restudy. In the first step, there was a lot of frustration and anger. Basically, when run npx create-strapi-app@latest my-project command, there was an error, because of my username in computer was john nash, there was space between two names. It happened before in React setup also. I solved it then by setting up React globally first. But, this solution didn't work in Strapi. After, a lot of research, I decided to set up another user account in my computer without spaces. In this way, I solved that problem.
• After setting up Strapi and watching a few videos, I managed to understand Strapi world. It happened quick actually, probably because of my recent backend studies and also Strapi's ease of use.
• There was some other frustrations also such as fetching data with relations (I mean, fetching channel with its messages and owner, for example). After some research, I overcame this problem with using populate query string.
• Now, I have a new interesting problem. I made an experiment, I post a message including a website link, it is saved in Strapi content manager but didn't return to my frontend as data. From that moment, things became strange. I sent some other posts. They have been all saved in Strapi database but not showed in fetch response. Later, I delete those posts with http links from DB. But still same things. I have 35 messages in my DB for example. When I fetch from react, I get only first 25 messages. The last recorded messages after those http link messages doesnt appear in response. I tried relevant endpoint in browser also. It is same. My experiment costs a lot to me. Anyway, it will be solved somehow. Hopefully.
• Things are fine generally. I learned a lot in a relatively short time and I can do a lot more than a few months ago. Thanks a lot to HYF-team for introducing and guiding us into the programming world.

What went less well?

• There is no perfect world. And also group project is coming. There will be another mess sure :)
• Overwhelmed with studying too diverse topics

Lessons Learned

• I discovered the Strapi world. I don't know how demanded in real sector but it looks very very useful technology.

Sunday Prep Work

• Studying a lot

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And also group project is coming. There will be another mess sure :)

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@yoshimalaise

[omerjava]

Now, I have a new interesting problem. I made an experiment, I post a message including a website link, it is saved in Strapi content manager but didn't return to my frontend as data. From that moment, things became strange. I sent some other posts. They have been all saved in Strapi database but not showed in fetch response. Later, I delete those posts with http links from DB. But still same things. I have 35 messages in my DB for example. When I fetch from react, I get only first 25 messages. The last recorded messages after those http link messages doesnt appear in response. I tried relevant endpoint in browser also. It is same. My experiment costs a lot to me. Anyway, it will be solved somehow. Hopefully.

I solved this problem by creating new messages table in Strapi database. Not ideal maybe, but better to move forward in short term. I must take care of link messages. Maybe , I should write some guard code in frontend to prevent api call if userInput includes links.

[omerjava]

The problem above is happened again. After some point, my messages in the databases were not coming in the response. In fact, only first 25 messages were available in the Response data. Then, I figured out that there is a default limitation by Strapi in response data as 25 items. This limitation can be changed in the source file as shown in the link. So, it was not because of website link input which I supposed as cause of error. It seems that my above experiment just coincided with Strapi limitation :)

[omerjava]

Week 1

Check-In

I Need Help With:

• My Strapi project in Heroku doesn't function properly. Heroku deployment and React deployment. I can register new user and can login with that new user credentials and get jwtToken in response. But then, when landing section came, getUsers and getChannels api-calls receive 403 error. And other api-calls such as add new channel, if I try, receive same 403 response. My help-wanted issue is here.
• Edit: I solved the above problem. Now, my project is working now in both frontend and backend.

What went well?

• I completed project with must-haves such as add/delete channel, send message with username
• I managed to do half of should-haves also such as register-login user, send private messages
• All completed features are working well in localhost servers
• I deployed the project to Heroku and GitHub pages
• I completed most of planning documents
• I created project board, relevant milestones and a lot of small, specific issues for tasks.
• UI design was not bad

What went less well?

• React codes was not bad, but can be improved. I would like see some feedback about codes from coaches. React deployment.
• I tried to put api-calls in a different folder/files, but I couldn't do that completely. Usually, I return response from fetch() call and do remaining parts with then() methods in component function. Because I need to use a lot of useState such as setErrorBlaBla(). And it was not possible to use useContext() in api-call, since they were objects not functions.
• Strapi is very practical but when you have problem, there are limited resources in internet. Probably, because of its limited community. When working, Express or Java Spring, you can find a lot of answers in websites like stackoverflow.com.
• In the short-term, it is very good to build website quick with Strapi, but it seems better to focus on Java Spring or Express in the long term for backend. Because, it looks that they are more demanded. It would be nice to hear suggestions of coaches about this.

Lessons Learned

• Heroku deployment of Strapi project following instructions.

Sunday Prep Work

• Trying to study more balanced. I need to give more time to myself and other thigs

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Screenshot of project from localhost servers