AddSkill Hackathon Experience
Last week I attended a hackathon organized by AddSkill which was focused on frontend development. The objective was to create a Grammarly clone and host it on Heroku.
Approach
Since most of the requirements for this project was heavily relied on JavaScript, I tried to complete the html and CSS part quickly.
As for JavaScript, I tried to use some of the advanced concept that was taught at AddSkill. I used built-in events and created custom events for handling user interaction and used async/await and built-in Promise function to make API calls and improve applications performance.
The trickiest part of the requirements was to create a highlighted dropdown menu for every error in the file. Using custom html elements for every errors seemed to be the best choice. Defining a custom element and using it made the code cleaner.
Conclusion
I was able to build the web application meeting all the requirements within seven hours. I probably learnt more in seven hours of the hackathon than I would have in days of self study.
Special thanks to the whole team of AddSkill for organizing this hackathon and helping every single participant throughout this process.