Renamed the org and repos to "MagicTracks" - maybe better than Knitting Machine? I dunno anymore. I figure I'll keep thinking on it until something sticks. At least this is a bit more fun.
Started developing the front end. Now that we've got an API setup, I've been revisiting some of the front end code from this summer. The difference now is that we've got a working back end to actually work with. Also I think I've learned a bunch of stuff since so I can make sure to take care of things like route protection etc.
I was running into CORS issues between Choo.js and Feathers.js due to the self-signed certs that Choojs/Bankai use by default. As a way to handle this, I've set up HTTPS for feathers.js using a self-signed cert as well. Whew, that was ~1.5 days of furious web searching. Strange behavior because I could make GET requests, but things would fail on POST or the other REST verbs. As a result, I couldn't get past setting up a front end for authentication in choo.js. Anyways, this is sorted now :)
I started playing with some ideas around of a more familiar "playlist" like environment for our link curation. see images below. One thing that came to mind is that "between links" we may need to insert some "glue" or transitional text or opportunity to add some description such that the story of the collected links can unfold in a more fluid way rather than jumping abruptly from link to link.
shiffman
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6 years ago
Hi All!
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