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It doesn't matter if you are trying to break into the tech industry or a seasoned engineered- anybody who is trying to get a new job will need to freshen up on their interview skills. OnlyDevs provides a way for developers to challenge their knowledge, while also being able to study with the contributions of others.

Get your head out of the gutter! This is an app made by devs for devs, and there's nothing crazy about that! Zero affiliations or correlation with any other sites, even those with similar names.

View the deployed app!

• Ability to view 50+ web development interview question cards and view a detailed page with answers forum
• Complete backend that is connected through the only-devs-api
• Ability to share answers to questions with the world
• Live search bar to search question by keyword
• Ability to rate an answer and see the current rating
• Random interview question which may be answered or shuffled
• Completely dynamic and fluid media queries

Clone the project and install dependencies

git clone [email protected]:andrewvallejo/only-devs.git
cd only-devs
npm install 
npm start

• User login feature
• User profile that contains their answers and ratings
• Add a set of backend interview questions and backend/frontend modes
• Allow users to add questions
• Sort answers by rating, date added, and authors
• Ability to favorite questions and answers

Rachael Carroll: GH & Linkedin

Learning goals: My biggest learning goal was to be able to successfully build a backend while also gaining more experience with React. I also wanted to learn Hooks in React and become more comfortable with Cypress testing.

Challenges: This project was the first project that we've implemented a new 'stretch' technology, outside of the Turing frontend curriculum. I had always been intimidated by the backend, as my true love and passion lies in UI and front end Javascript. So it was a mental challenge to step outside my comfort zone into the land of the backend. There was definitely a learning curve with a new language (SQL) in order to build the database on PostgreSQL and deploy the backend to Heroku. Overall, I'm so glad I ventured into this side of development and I'm proud of this app!

Learning goals. Heroku, Express, and Cypress

Challenges: We faced a few challenges in this project. One of the largest was the learning curve with building a PostgreSQL database and deploying the backend to Heroku. It was also very difficult to understand how to configure pool, which was an external library to speak between the Postgres database and the express api we custom built. Configuration can be a nightmare, but it can also be a dream when you learn to ask for support from your teammates, cohortmates, and online developer community. I'm truly blessed to have learned this process of co-teaching and co-learning with my teammates to implement a new technology and app that can be used for studying by our cohortmates!

Learning goals: My major goals were to be able to make a fullstack website by also learning backend with PostgreSQL and connecting the API made with Express to Heroku.

Challenges: The backend already seemed daunting as I imagine in my head it being the parallel and opposite universe to front end. Although after learning the syntax and receiving help from backend developers, I manage to create some tables. The hard part was trying to understand SQL, it's logic, and learning a new CLI. Like the others, Hiroku proved to be the most challenging aspect as it felt completely unknown at the time how connect all of the pieces . Although, like Thomas Edison, I know of a thousand ways how to not deploy a Heroku backend.