Blog Frontend

At the time of this journal, I have spent 61 hours on the frontend, with 41 commits.

• added sonner toasts, which greatly increased the UX
• added API functions for comments API
• added video support for each post's covers

• refactored image and video covers for each post into PostCover component
• added onLoad animations for the covers
  • 1st draft: add fade animation to entire post while cover loads
  • 2nd draft: spinner skeleton for just the post cover while it loads
  • finally: spinner skeleton with fade animation when the image loads in
• refactored all the API functions by making get, post and delete functions in helper.ts
• added captions under cover

Blog API

At the time of this journal, I have spent 12 hours on the backend, with 28 commits.

• fixed register API not encrypting passwords
• added rate limiting to all APIs
• sorted posts by newest to oldest