Project Birthday

Get notified in the browser when your next birthday is.

live demo

Technology used in this project

• IndexeDB: Client side offline local storage of settings
• Browser notifications: For notifying user of birthday
• React - Trying out a popular web UI framework
  • functional components (get familiar with them over class based)
  • useRedux
    • A new way to organize state changes
  • useEffect - used in functional components
    • Cleanup of event handlers
    • Retrieving data from indexedDB
  • Router
    • Have a specific component render to an assigned URL
    • Change current URL in response to actions (Redirect)
    • Went with hash-based "/#/" routing since it requires no server configuration

• Mocha - Testing some apps and getting familar with testing in JS
• Puppeteer - Automated testing of expected user interaction with the site