So you're ready to start creating a portfolio but can't think of any ideas? Here's one AMAZING idea to demonstrate full stack skills and impress an...
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It'll take just 5 minutes if you copy/paste everything from the post
Might as well fork it and call it yours
Thanks for the comment Nico 😄 this project isn't hosted on my Github at this time!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the content, it just feels like faking it. If I were to put this and get attention by a hiring manager, I’d be lying if I said I knew how I got to make this to work lol
Not at all! I appreciate that! You're completely right! the idea is to get something built as quickly as possible and use that to develop and expand their (who ever builds this) knowledge. When i first learned how to code it took such a long time for me to understand concepts and tools because i just didn't build any real life projects!
Even so, it won't. Setting up mongodb, installing dependencies... 20 minutes at least. :|
Thanks for the comment Mydrax! It might take just 5 minutes if you're a fast reader 😄
I think you should expand your opening paragraph to make it clearer what is being built with this project. You can guess it's a URL shortener with "mkdir url-shortener", but it would be good if this was written explicitly, and also a few words on the features/functionalities that will be implemented.
Thanks for the feedback! Those are some solid suggestions and I'll definitely implement them! 😄
Nice example code with comments, but I think you forgot to mention what the heck you are building. Also, it looks like you didn't include how to set up the MongoDB database.
Thanks for the comment z2lai! You're right, i could have made it more clear in the introduction what was being built. It is mentioned in the project set up section however 😄 And you're right! my previous blog post mentions this! hope that helps 😄
I think it would be helpful to link to your previous post for people that want to run the entire application you walk us through. Well done!
That's true! I'll make sure to improve things with my next blog post. Thanks for the feedback! 😇
"Want recruiters attention ?"
Do you think this will be enough when the recruiters want to see some skills in React/Angular/Vue ? We know a lot of job requirements state this thing among other things.
For me, using the same project, in order to enhance impression for them, I may replace all related codes in front end with codes written in React + Bootstrap 4.
As for backend :
Thanks for sharing your idea and approach in creating a portfolio.
On my browser, there's a weirdly huge graphic repeated after every step; anyone else seeing that?
I saw it in Vivaldi so pasted the url into chrome where it seems fine.
Tried to upload an image but for some reason that's not working...
Hey Brian! Thanks for leaving a comment! Can you share what this graphic looks like? What browser are you using? Thanks ! 😄
It seems like it's looking fine now; maybe there was a dev.to issue that got resolved, I didn't take a screenshot when I noticed the issue, unfortunately. The image I saw was black with white braces, sort of like an icon you might use around a QR code in an icon to denote an ability to scan, but with nothing inside it.
The 1st time I load this page, I experienced the same thing. After I reloaded, everything was fine.
Hey Brandon,
Cool tutorial. How do you start the project locally ?
Thanks
Great question Max! Simple run
node server/index.jsin a terminal from the root of your project!Including this in the article may be helpful along with how to run the frontend on a browser (i.e. In your browser address bar navigate to "localhost:8080/. I've learned that we should assume readers know the bare minimum and I think your guide does a good job so far. Just a couple more bits of information for the newcomers.
Hey Oscar thanks for commenting! That's a very good point and I appreciate the feedback! I'm going to take all this on board for my future posts and hopefully improve! 🤯
I like this project. It's very similar to a freeCodeCamp project in the API and Microservices course, which is one of the certificates I enjoyed the most.
I've been thinking of going back to my answer for that activity and personalising it. I might just do it after reading this. Thank you OP.
Very nice. In order to really impress a recruiter you could consider TDD and add some unit tests.
Very true! Thanks for your comment Sander ! 🙌
I think this is a great, fun, project. Would you mind if I port it to .Net and make it available on GitHub?
Go ahead!
Hi Brandon,
It took me a while longer than expected, but I finally have a working port of your app in .Net Core. I am planning on a series of posts to describe my project. I also made my source code available on GitHub. Would you mind linking to my Dev.to post and GitHub repo? Here are the URLs: dev.to/pdelco/a-reference-applicat... and github.com/pdelco/m-url for generating shortened URLs
I appreciate it!
Nice Project. It reminds me of the Url Shortener on FreeCodeCamp. This took me MAYBE in minutes real-time to crank out, with typing and adding notes. The title is "Build it in 5 minutes", not "Hold my Hand as I walk you through the finer points of Express", so I'm not sure why people are complaining that you don't go into explicit detail regarding setup...
If you can't kick this little app out quickly, you're probably not ready to talk to recruiters.
Thanks for commenting Kieran!
I actually haven't seen that one so I will have to check it out!
I appreciate the support! I think many people have viewed the post with different expectations of how much support this post would provide for the more junior devs out there! Which is totally valid! I'm working to maintain a balance to not bore the more experienced viewers whilst still being able to provide value to the juniors! 💩
Thank you for the tutorial brandon.
Thanks for the comment imacchiavello ! 😄
Very nice. Add the host name for 'm.url/' (micro url) to point to 'localhost:8080/' to make it more 'micro'
Hey webdevinci! Thanks for the comment! that is something i wasn't aware of and really like actually! hopefully someone else sees this too! thanks! 😄
Cool
Thank you!
Cool project. If you don't mind I will create a TypeScript version of it. 😃
Thanks for commenting! Excited to see that!
wow, this was a nice Idea. Thanks, @brandonkylebailey , More content like this is very useful. Create more sample projects where people will learn new Ideas.
I'd first put what we are building at the top of the post. I only figured it out when at the bottom of it, with the images. I will give it a try!
5 minutes to git clone all the stuff (kidding, thanks!)
Haha no worries! Thanks for commenting 😃
What is this? Why isn't there a 👎🏻 button?
Thanks for the comment Moritz! 😄 You'll have to take that up with dev.to 😅