CSULB Ranker

Inspiration

• I wished there would be a community where we can share our short opinions, and people can vote about it.

What it does

• Only CSULB domain users can signup
• Any user can create as many posts as they want
• Any user can vote for any post, but only once.

How we built it

• Built with Firebase auth, Firebase firestore, and React.

Challenges we ran into

• I wanted to make sure React updates Firestore change as soon as any user clicks either upvote or downvote button.
• But since Firestore is not a real-time database, it was a little bit harder to implement it than I thought.
• I had to deal with lots of bugs while rendering each Card component. And the errors were mainly I did not pass down the props in a right way.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• I had to deal with lots of asynchronous functions and am glad I managed to get over it.

What we learned

• Even though the project looks simple, there are actually lots of things going on behind the scene.

What's next for CSULB Ranker

• Want to make the user experience better.
• Want to add 'trending post' feature

Built With

• firebase
• javascript
• react