Check Yo Self

A site to check the grammar of your markdown blog posts/texts.

Live Demo

How to use:

1. 🌀 Clone the repo at https://github.com/twhite96/checkyoself.git
2. 🏃 Run: npm i to install dependencies.
3. 🎊 Have fun with it.

💪🏽 Motivation for this app

Frustrated by Grammarly and Hemingway apps' inability to process markdown blog posts, I decided to make my own site to process markdown blog posts or other texts. I settled on React Bulma for the UI because it is lightweight and flexible, like Bulma.

🥞 Stack

I am currently using React-Bulma, create-react-app, write-good, and SimpleMDE markdown editor. Eventually I'd like to use Firebase for data persistence.

👊🏽 Wins

The components are written for the most part; there are some breaking changes with SimpleMDE editor and so I am not upgrading to the latest version.

I've also become more cognizant of React patterns and concepts.

For instance,

😐 Difficulties

Getting the styling was easy. At first, getting the navigation together with the react-transition-group library was difficult as I didn't have much experience with React when I started this project for instance, this hamburger button:

export default ({ open, ...props }) => (
  <div className={open ? "burger-menu open" : "burger-menu"} {...props}>
    <div className="bar1" key="b1" />
    <div className="bar2" key="b2" />
    <div className="bar3" key="b3" />
  </div>
);

I didn't know what it was doing. What was this line: {open ? "burger-menu open" : "burger-menu"} and what did it do?

🚶‍♂️Next steps

⚡ Refactor ⚡

📘 Further reading

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Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/twhite96/checkyoself