I personally used this application for some period of time, because when I want to quick note something it suits me well. A lot of features, integrations, and more. Later, I discover Notion and the life of my notes changed 180 degrees, but I think this is material for a separate article 😉
Tech stack
Yeah, another app that was written in TypeScript 😁 On the backend it uses Express.js, authentication was made with OAuth.
React and Redux form the core of the frontend and everything is covered by a significant amount of testing.
For text editing and all the functionality associated with it, Codemirror was used and I think it does the job.
Open source journey
This application is special to me because it was the first open source project I was involved in. As I mention before I used it and in my opinion keyboard navigation wasn’t as good as it could have been. So I opened my first pull request in the project this size. And causing my indescribable happiness it was accepted!
Call me an Open Source Developer! 😅
Honestly, I have had more ideas for improvements, but, unfortunately, the main contributor - Tania Rascia, although she accepted most of them, she didn’t answer my questions, and the project stalled.
I hope that someday there will be more activity associated with it and I can help to further improve it 💪
Lessons learned
I learnt a lot about how to setup project to be accessible to people who want to contribute to it.
I appreciated the tools such as ESLint, Prettier, and Husky which make collaborating with others much easier. They set the rules so that everything is more transparent and the developer's personal settings don’t affect the whole project.
It’s worth mentioning that I also learned how to use and transform Markdown, which allows me to at least create this description.
So, I have to say: “Thank you, TakeNote!” 😅
