coljac / ithasbeen

React app for making a trivial "It has been X days" sign

It has been X days

A long time ago I was a web developer. Back then, I could comfortably edit the DOM with simple Javascript, and was pretty good at Java applets, servlets and eventually a fancy framework called Tapestry. Then my career changed and my skills withered into obsolescence. This simple app is my attempt to brush up and learn the FARM stack (FastAPI, React and Mongo) which I think is great.

You can access the app and make a board at ithasbeen.xyz. It makes a clean and simple page that says how many days it's been since something happened. You can update the number manually, automatically as time passes, and/or set the number via a rest API. For the latter, hit https://api.ithasbeen.xyz/setcount/<boardid>?days=<days>&editkey=<editkey>. The board ID and editkey respectively are the string at the end of the display and edit links in the URL of the page you made.