Welcome to Reddit Data

This dashboard shows you the latest information on your favorite subreddits and Users.

My Curiosity to use the Reddit API was out of pure use of the APP.

Problems

The Reddit API documentation is poor. The setup of user data, search data, and subreddit data were all unique. This caused me to have an error of searching a subreddit that has never been created before. The url redirected to a search url when I searched my own username on the subreddit page.

My first thought was to inject data into the returned data to show an error, but this only caused my loading feature to stop working on all pages. I am learning how to fix this issue.

Why this project was created

I went out and created this project for the sole purpose of learning REST APIs, Data Fetching, NEXT.js, TypeScript and to improve my abilities with REACT.

Project Creation took a bit longer than expected. The UI took me about 70% of the time to build the project. Learning NEXT, Creating tests, and data fetching was the other 30%.

What I liked

I was in charge of everything from creating designs, to folder architecture, to picking out the handful of technologies I wanted to use, to then creating the whole thing from scratch. I was a mini project manager and it was a journey I am proud I took.

I enjoyed testing my work. Even though it is not a large portion of work I loved seeing the green tick mark on tests run to see my creation working properly.