victorpatru / french-enlightenment-wisdom

Generate random quotes from historian's favorite "Philosophes"

French Enlightenment Wisdom (Voltaire edition)

While Voltaire has fallen out of the minds of day's youth his powerful quotes unpack human nature from a period of excellence in the humanities (The Enlightenment)

Link to project: https://victorpatru.github.io/voltaire-quote-generator/

How It's Made:

Tech used: HTML, CSS, Vanilla Javascript

• Curated and placed into an array some of Voltaire's best quotes
• Set up an integration with Twitter to allow the user to tweet a quote from our application
• Set up event listeners, basic DOM, and CSS manipulations to dynamically adjust the content displayed to our users

Optimizations

• Fetch from a publicly available API so to increase the number of unique quotes displayed to our user

Lessons Learned:

• How to read the Twitter documentation to take advantage of built-in functionality that allows our user to tweet the quote from their account

Examples:

Take a look at these couple examples that I have in my own portfolio:

Coding Challenges: https://github.com/victorpatru/Coding-Challenges