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Dhairya Shah
Dhairya Shah

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Make notes sharing app with React and Firebase

#javascript #react #webdev #firebase

Hello 👋

Demo

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Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of React JS
  • Node JS

Step 1 - create-react-app 

$ npx create-react-app@latest mynoteapp
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Step 2 - Creating TextArea 

<textarea id="txt" cols="30" rows="10" placeholder="Enter some text!" value={text} onChange={e => setText(e.target.value)} onKeyDown={keySound}></textarea>
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*Styling *🌈

*{
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
body{
  height: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}
textarea{
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  resize: none;
  margin: 5px;
  font-size: 25px;
  outline: none;
  border: none;
}
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So, now the Textarea is covered the whole page without outlines and borders

Step 3 - Add Settings Menu using dat.gui

  • Install data.gui using, 
$ npm i dat.gui
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  • Import it to Textarea.js 
import * as dat from 'dat.gui';
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  • Initialize dat.gui 
const gui = await new dat.GUI({hideable: false});
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  • Create objects 
const obj = {
            fontSize : 25,
            fontFamily : 'monospace',
            saveFile: () => {
                const btn = document.querySelector('#saveBtn')
                btn.click()
            }
        }
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  • Add options 1) Font size 
 gui.add(obj, 'fontSize').min(8).max(60).step(1).onChange(e => {
            document.querySelector('textarea').style.fontSize = `${e}px`
        })
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2) Font family

gui.add(obj, 'fontFamily', {
            'Monospace': 'monospace',
            'Roboto': 'Roboto',
            'Poppins': 'Poppins',
            'Cursive': 'Cursive',
        }).onChange(e => {
            document.querySelector('textarea').style.fontFamily = e
        })
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3) Save button

gui.add(obj, 'saveFile')
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This will create a GUI panel on the top-right corner of the page

GUI panel

Step 4 - Setting up database

  • Go to Google Firebase Console
  • Create a new project, give it a name as you wish
  • Create a new web application Web app
  • Install firebase to your react application 
$ npm install firebase
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  • Copy your credentials and create fireabse.js in the src directory of your React application

firebase.js

import firebase from "firebase/compat/app"
import "firebase/compat/firestore"

const firebaseConfig = {
    apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    authDomain: "YOUR_AUTH_DOMAIN",
    projectId: "YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
    storageBucket: "YOUR_STORAGE_BUCKET",
    messagingSenderId: "YOUR_MESSAGING_ID",
    appId: "YOUR_APP_ID"
  };


const app = firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);

const db = app.firestore();


export default db
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  • Now go back again to your Firebase project
  • Go to Firestore Database Firestore
  • Create a database
  • And choose production mode
  • Choose any location you want
  • After creating the database, go to the rules tab of the dashboard Rules
  • Paste the following code to the rules playground and publish it 
rules_version = '2';
service cloud.firestore {
  match /databases/{database}/documents {
    match /{document=**} {
      allow read, write: if true;
    }
  }
}
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  • Now go back to your React project

  • Go to Textarea.js and import database

import db from '../firebase'
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  • Create a save function 
const handleSave = async () => {
        let slug = tinyid.unique()
        keySound()
        let today = new Date();
        const dd = String(today.getDate()).padStart(2, '0');
        const mm = String(today.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0'); //January is 0!
        const yyyy = today.getFullYear();
        today =  dd + '/' + mm + '/' + yyyy
        await db.collection('notes').doc(slug).set({
            text: text,
            date: today,
        })
        navigate(`/${slug}`)
    }
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To generate slug, you can use tiny-unique-id

  • Loading created notes 
useEffect(() => {
        const handleLoad = async () => {
            const doc = await db.collection('notes').doc(slug).get()
            setText(doc.data().text)
        }
        handleLoad()
    }, [slug])
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Check out the full source code: https://github.com/codewithsnowbit/notes-share-react

Thank you for reading

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