kernapillar / mern-stack-paint

Mern-Stack-Paint

Live Link

• Click here to view the project hosted on heroku: https://mern-stack-paint.herokuapp.com/#/

Description

MernStackPaint is an art sharing website where users can create posts with simple MSPaint-style drawings accompanied by a brief comment about their drawing. From there, other users may respond to the post with a drawing of their own, and may choose to use the parent post's drawing as the starting canvas. The goal of the project is to cultivate a fun, light-hearted way for users to interact and build on what others have already made.

Key Features

• User Authentication
  • Users can sign up, log in, log out, and can only create and respond to posts when logged in.
• Make posts
  • Posts have a title, a comment, a tag categorizing the post, and a simple drawing attached to them.
• View other user posts
  • Users can see an index of recent posts from other users that they may choose to respond to.
• User profile
  • A user can see an index of their own posts, update and delete individual posts, and view individual posts to see other user responses.
• Search
  • Users can search for posts by their tag or by words contained in the post title.

Technologies Used

• AWS S3

* Canvas data is converted to base64 data string, then converted a blob, then uploaded to amazon S3 webservice for external storage * the URL is saved as as a string in the post for later retreival and re-use if collaboration is desired * upon re-use, it is reconverted to base64 string, and imported into canvas to be drawn over

• Canvas API

code snippet of the canvas drawing menu, rendering the color changing buttons, pen size, and allowing users to clear the canvas and restart. *

• MongoDB
• Express
• React-Redux
• Node.js

Future Project Goals

• Create parent/child structure for posts so that replies can be nested under the parent post
• Make tags optional and be able to add more than one
• Like posts and follow threads