I have successfully passed first evaluation! All thanks to the mentors!

What did I do this week

This week was mostly focused on fixing bugs in User Story. I have fixed the form-validation bug on new story page, the LinkedIn share bug and mentions feature is mostly done finally :)

What is coming up next?

For the coming week also I will focus on fixing some bugs and writing tests and working on design improvements for User Story.

Did I got stuck somewhere?

Yes, I took me sometime to figure out how to change the mentioned usernames into links!

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What did I do this week and further plans...

This week was mostly focused on implementation of file uploads feature for New Stories, Comments and Comment Replies. Our mentor Aditya helped us in implementation of file uploads for new stories and also guided in the file uploads implementation for comments and comment replies. For implementation of this feature, we figured out file uploads in starpi. Along with this we also worked on some bugs and refactoring the code. The final PR can be seen here. For the coming week I will continue with the work left from previous weeks i.e. implementation of draft.js plugin and will also try to work on mark as read feature for single notification.
Will update more in the next weekly check-in :)

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What did I do this week ?

This week I worked on solving some bugs and refactoring the GraphQL queries.

What is coming up next ?

For the coming week I will be spending time on working on some more bugs and replacing the react-mentions with draft.js plugin. I will also try to work on the UI at the end of the week if time allows.

Did I got stuck anywhere ?

Yes, I am trying to figure out how to integrate cloudinary to dropzone for uploading images. Along with this I am also working implementation of draft.js plugin.
More updates in the next blog post :)

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Here is my blog post for the third week.

What did I do this week and further plans

This week I fixed some errors and made some improvements in the sharable links PR and it is done now :) My main focus for this week was to convert the usernames in the mentions PR into links and what I am able to achieve till now is just the links in markup format i.e. [username](user profile link). I have used regex to match the markup link format. Now I need to replace them with links in HTML format. We also had a meeting this week with our mentor this week and we decided that after completing the ongoing features along with the tests, we will work on fixing bugs and refactoring the code. So for the coming week I will try to write some tests and work on bugs and will update in the next weekly check-in :)

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Here is my weekly check-in for the second week.

What did I do this week ?

This week I worked on implementation of sharable links feature. This feature will allow the users to share the story page url across various platforms. Along with this they can also copy the url of the same. I used react-share library to achieve this functionality. Along with this I also revamped the mentions functionality introduced in the previous blog.

What I will do in the coming week ?

For this week I will work on tests for both the above mentioned functionalities along with leftover part of the mentions functionality.

Did I get stuck somewhere ?

Yes, the first thing I got stuck with for this week was to convert mentioned usernames into links. I am trying to fix this one.