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Aspiring.Dev — Challenge tracking made easy

Screen recording of the app

Summary

This is a web based challenge tracker app built for developers.

Challenges can be added through a simple UI and then tracked through a personal dashboard where users can glance over all their active challenges.

The app doesn't enforce users on a strict timeline and gives a very flexible workflow to submit late entries or multiple entries on the same day.

Stack

The application was built with the following tech stack:

  • Tailwind CSS: Styling
  • React: Frontend library
  • Supabase: PostgreSQL database, authentication
  • Hasura: GraphQL backend, authorization
  • Netlify: Deployment
  • Notable NPM packages:
    • emoji-mart: Emoji picker
    • react-circular-progressbar: Simple progress bar
    • react-loader-spinner: Customizable loading spinner
    • react-modal: Accessible modal for React

Why didn't you build it with Next.js?

Because I didn't need any SSR or SSG features. And I know that Next.js offers many other benefits apart from SSR/SSG, but dealing with the extra complexity that Next.js brings (especially when using Apollo Client) wasn't a good trade-off for me giving that this is my first-ever project of using GraphQL, Apollo, and Hasura. Ideally I would want to use Next.js all-the-time, but it didn't make sense for this particular project for the reasons I outlined.