Using Data Uploaded From Text Files in Node/Express
Longtime users of TikTok will have probably liked hundreds, if not thousands, of videos on the app. It would be incredibly tedious for a user to select each video, click its share icon, copy a link, and then submit data its URL data. Thankfully, TikTok allows users to download all of their data, including their list of Liked videos. The user receives this information as a text file called Like List.txt.
ReadDeleting Multiple Documents In One Request With Hidden Form Input
Creating a router and a controller to delete a single video by ID was fairly straightforward. However, this method would give each video its own unique route where a user could then click to delete a video. This sounded pretty tedious, so it was important to me that users could select as many videos as they liked and then click a delete icon to remove videos from their collection of favorites.
ReadFollowing URLs with Redirect Requests in Node.js with Follow Redirects
While building out my TikTok app, I encountered a problem that made storing and displaying data difficult: the TikTok API stopped allowing response requests from mobile TikTok links. When using the Copy Link function on the native TikTok app, the app produces a shortened URL.
ReadUsing Nodemon to Automate Server Reloads
The first step to building my fullstack bookmark application is learning about backend development. While testing out basic concepts in Node.js and Express, I found myself constantly terminating jobs only to restart them a few moments later after making minor changes to my code. Going through this process every time I wanted to see anything updated became pretty annoying fairly quickly.
ReadModularizing an Exercise App for Future Feature Development
Prior to the pandemic, I went to the gym every weekday and ended my workouts with a cooldown stretch. Depending on which muscle groups I used, I followed a particular series of stretches. I could never quite memorize the stretches, so I wound up going between the stopwatch app on my phone and the stretches in my web browser. If my phone memory wasn't feeling generous, this would cause my browser to totally refresh (requiring me to scroll down to find the correct stretch) and my stopwatch to lag before displaying the correct time.
ReadCreating User Stories for a MERN Stack TikTok Bookmark Organizer
During quarantine, TikTok became one of my new favorite sources for entertainment. A never ending series of relatively quick (and mostly fun) videos on a wide variety of topics is a fun way to pass the time. One feature TikTok has is the ability to like videos and store these videos within a folder on the app. However, after several months of liking videos, earlier bookmarks that I wanted to return to were buried very deeply within this folder. The app has no way of sorting these videos or organizing them into folders. After becoming frustrated by not being able to find some of my older bookmarked videos, I decided to build my own external TikTok bookmark organizer.
ReadPage Height on Mobile Devices
Before deploying my application, I tested it using the developer tools available on Chrome. It looked exactly as I envisioned it when testing it across a myriad of screen sizes. However, after I visited the application on my mobile phone, I realized that there was one very big problem. The information at the bottom, which included the music playback option, the temperature, the date, the day, and time, was missing.
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