Case study
Notes app
A markdown notes application with a Django REST API behind it, a React front end with a live editor, and sign-in through Google rather than another password to remember.
Overview
Markdown notes with an account behind them. A Django REST API for storage and auth, a React front end with a live markdown editor, and Google sign-in so there is no password to invent or forget.
What I own
Both halves, the API and the interface.
Complexities tackled
Delegating identity rather than building it. Storing passwords means salting, resets, lockouts and a breach you now own. Signing in through Google removes that entire category of work and risk from a personal project, at the cost of one integration.
A live markdown editor is a rendering problem, not an input one. Typing is easy. Keeping a preview in step without re-rendering the document on every keystroke, and without losing the cursor, is where the actual engineering sits.
Two codebases in one repository. The API and the web client live side by side with their own dependency sets, which keeps them independently runnable while making the pair easy to check out and start.
Stack
Django and Django REST Framework with JWT, React and TypeScript with Tailwind CSS on the front, Google OAuth for sign-in.
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