The "progressive" part of this is all Firebase.
Firebase handles your offline database, and syncing it for you automatically when you are reconnected.
Show HN: Remember – A progressive Todo app
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#32I see Firebase being used often around here to host progressive apps. Is there something that Firebase offers that is conducive to build progressive apps?
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#33I see Firebase being used often around here to host progressive apps. Is there something that Firebase offers that is conducive to build progressive apps?
It seamlessly handles a changing network connection. When there's no internet connection, you still get to use the local database, and when there is a connection it'll sync everything with the server.
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#34Interesting, and it did most things I expected intuitively. One missing piece though...I expected to be able to move items up or down in order. Basically sorting the to-do list. That doesn't appear to work.
Also, I'd like to be able to clear my completed list, or something like that. That's gonna get cluttered real quick
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#35The application is great but you illustrate perfectly what the web development is becoming, tens of files for just 3 features (add, edit, complete)
Perhaps it wasn't OP's intention to make the most elegant Todo application, but rather learn a a new set of tools while creating an application (s)he's rather familiar with? Then again I actually have no idea. You could easily write a VERY simple Todo application with the three features you mentioned (add, edit, complete) using an HTML file and some Javascript. At first glance, I don't suspect OP is trying to create…
OP here! You guessed right, I wanted to make a simple application with all the modern tooling available out there. My main objective was to learn :)
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#36Interesting, and it did most things I expected intuitively. One missing piece though...I expected to be able to move items up or down in order. Basically sorting the to-do list. That doesn't appear to work.
Hi, There are a lot of features missing (Reordering, lists maybe). I focused on deploying as fast as possible and then adding features along the way. Also my motive my learning and not the application itself (There are a lot of todo apps out there already)
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#37I think the link in the ReadMe to the article about the motivations for this project is a much better read: https://medium.com/@sanchitgn/what-ive-learnt-developing-a-m... It clears up why he's using a boatload of libraries. Basically, he wrote it in such a way that you can save the page as a phone app/bookmark thing, and it'll work even if you're offline.
Hi swsieber, that's exactly what I going for!
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#38The application is great but you illustrate perfectly what the web development is becoming, tens of files for just 3 features (add, edit, complete)
Exactly. I initially thought it was satire. A dozen external libraries and a special package manager to build something that can be written with equivalent functionality in 10 lines of bash. I don't exactly get why this is posted here. It seems like OP did this for the sake of his own learning, and that's well and good. But this is not a particularly interesting project and doesn't do anything novel.
Hi, I thought of this as a starting point I could use to build more complex apps. The idea was in no way novel. I just wanted to use the modern technologies out there.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is called "simple, easy and intuitive UI". It is the ultimate dream of every designer and product manager. Please go back to your cave to brush bits and bytes in assembly.
I get the heated response to the comment, but I'm not sure you can state this is "the ultimate dream of every designer and product manager". It is very simple and easy, but there are a lot of features missing (swipe left to undo for example). Also, don't hate the bits & bytes in assembly, some HN readers read assembly and write bit operations on a daily basis. Those who write UIs in assembly are probably masochists.…
I meant that easy and intuitive UIs, in generic, are the dream/goal of designers/managers, not necessarily this one in particular, since ToDo apps are so simple.
You made a good point about low level programmers. As a former assembly programmer that did lots of bit operations on 80386 processors I do understand your point. My apologies.