Welcome to Inkterest!

Live site: Inkterest

Inkterest is a clone of Pinterest, designed to be an image sharing and social media service to allow for the sharing & discovery of tattoo images, and on a smaller scale, GIFs from all over the world.

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Features

• Create, edit, and delete Inks
• Create, edit, and delete Canvases
• Add inks to canvases to organize collection
• Privitize your canvas
• Edit personal user information
• Follow other users to build community

Languages used

• JavaScript
• Python

Technologies used

• React
• React dropdown
• Redux
• Flask
• SQLalchemy
• postgreSQL
• Docker
• Heroku

Technical Details

The session user can visit a specific inks page, and follow the user associated with that ink.

This feature is heavily governed by strict nested conditional rendering which first checks if the sessionUser is logged in. The next check is to confirm is the sessionUser is NOT owner of the ink in question. If the sessionUser is the owner, the follow and unfollow buttons will not render. If the sessionUser is not the owner, the third and final check is set up as a ternary to check if the sessionUser is already following the user.

return (
    {
    sessionUser &&
    sessionUser?.id !== user?.id &&
        (
        isFollowing
        ? <button className='unfollow-btn' onClick={(e) => handleUnFollow(e, user?.id)}>Unfollow</button>
        : <button className='follow-btn' onClick={(e) => handleFollow(e, user?.id}>Follow</button>
        )
    }
)

We employ this final check by updating React state isFollowing on initial render and every subsequent button click. This ensures that the follow and unfollow button will render in accord with the relationship between the sessionUser and user.

Future Features to implement

• Comments
• Likes/Dislikes
• Saving inks to profile page
• Adding multiple inks to a canvas at once