jasonblanchard / art-share-ui

Hi there, I'm Jason 👋

I am a builder who loves working across the stack¹. I get immense joy from putting things together and seeing them work, "things" being features, bug fixes, systems, teams, companies, and everything in between.

🌱 Things that have inspired me

• Evolutionary Architecture² - theoretical underpinning for what has become my first principle of software architecture: there is no such thing as a perfect system, only systems that are more or less fit for their environments. Our job as software architects is to iteratively make our systems more fit for their environment, w.r.t. both the technical landscape and the business drivers. This is the "what" and the "why" behind software architecture.
• Simple Made Easy - inspired the second principle of sotware architecture, which is: simplicity. But! It's a very specific kind of simplicity. Not necessarily "easier" or "more familiar" or "with less stuff," but more "decomplected," or "less interleaved/intertwined". This is the most fundamental "how" of software architecture.

😅 Talks I've given

• Everything is a Migration: Putting Evolutionary Architecture into Practice - LeadDev NYC 2023
• Building the Right Island: What Should I Be Doing Right Now? - Deserted Island DevOps · Sep 27, 2022

🔧 Tools I'm excited about right now

I was initially excited to write this section, but I decided to scrap it because it changes too often! The inspiration section ⬆️ is far more evergreen and drives what tech I'm excited about at any given moment.

Footnotes

1. Seriously. I have probably shipped just as much code for React frontends as I have the APIs that back them and the infrastructure that runs it all :) ↩

2. Up to but very much excluding the "microservice everything" recommendation. That's one way, but not the only way. ↩

art-share-ui's Issues

Keep user logged in

Currently, when you sign in, your session is lost when the page refreshes.

Fix this by saving the user info to localstorage and automatically logging in on page load.

You might need to add a "logout" button that clears this info from localstorage.

Refactor to use the artshare-wrapper-api

Right now, the main codebase has verbose AJAX requests mixed in with the rest of the code.

Refactor to use the artshare-api-wrapper to encapsulate the AJAX request implementation details in a separate library and make the application code cleaner.

Allow users to delete images

Add a button near the images that deletes the image.

It would be helpful to allow the user to confirm that they are sure they want to delete the image before it's actually destroyed.

Error handling

There is currently no way for users to know that something went wrong with an AJAX request or other errors. For example, what happens when you try to sign in with the wrong password?

Fix this so that the user sees an error message when something goes wrong.

Update "Current User's Paintings" when painting is added

Currently, you have to hit the "Get Paintings" button to update the displayed paintings.

Fix it so that as soon as a new image is added, it shows up on the page.