photo-finder

This is a web application that will help you find stock photos for your personal projects and web applications. I built it with React JS, semantic UI and the Unsplash API. I also used CSS Grid to format the returned images on the UI.

Issues faced & resolution:

• I kept getting this error: "Can't read property of undefined" in my code, but I was able to resolve this by using arrow functions.
• I also did not want to show my API key in the body in my auth code but I was able to tuck it away in the .env file. I know this is not ideal, but it'll do for now since this application is a personal project, not a production app.
• I deployed this app via Vercel and it kept failing in production because of this error: Can't resolve './ImageCard' in '/vercel/path0/src/components' . I was able to fix this by running vercel --force to clean the build cache and then, vercel --prod to redeploy.

Technology used:

• React
• CSS
• Semantic UI
• The Unsplash API
• Vercel

Link to site:

https://photo-finder-thatgirldorian.vercel.app/

Screenshare:

Screen.Recording.2022-08-01.at.12.56.35.AM.mov

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