This is a submission for the Netlify Dynamic Site Challenge: Build with Blobs.

What I Built

Welcome to the Page Views Counter project!

I've implemented a page view counter using Netlify Blobs and Netlify Functions, allowing us to monitor page view efficiently.

Implementation and Usage Details

• Objective: Track page views.
• Implementation: Implemented an API with Netlify Functions and store view counts using Netlify Blobs Service.
• Usage Instructions:
  1. Send a GET Request: Send a GET request to the API endpoint with the URL of the page to track.
  2. Receive Response: Receive the response containing the page URL and its view count.
  3. Display View Count: Display the view count on your page as needed.

API Endpoint

• Endpoint: https://page-views-counter.netlify.app/page_view?page=https://example.com/index.html/
• Method: GET
• Request Parameters: page (URL of the page to track)

• Sample Request:

  curl https://page-views-counter.netlify.app/page_view?page=https://example.com/index.html/
  

• Sample Response:

  {
    "data": {
      "page_url": "https://example.com/index.html/",
      "view_count": 8,
      "last_modified": "2024-05-11T07:45:42.482Z"
    }
  }
  

The API response includes the page URL and its corresponding view count in JSON format.

Demo

View Live Demo: https://page-views-counter.netlify.app/

Platform Primitives

I used Netlify Blobs as a data storage solution to store the view count data for each page. Whenever a page is visited, the view count data is incremented and stored in a Blob associated with that specific page.

GitHub

More Ideas to Explore 💡

• We can develop an API to store and track page-like counts.
• We can display the most popular posts on a static website.
• Utilize Netlify Edge functions to gather location-based data and store it in Netlify Blobs. This enables the display of location-specific top posts or most-liked posts, etc...
• And many more use cases 😀

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