Super duper quick update: Set it up so my React (when a drawing is submitted) can talk to my python api, then comes back to React! None of the python stuff is trained yet (im super scared), and right now I have it auto return as a flower… but they’re communicating! I think this is a win, considering I’ve never done this before. Thank you Medium Daily Digest references online :DD
Starting a new project: community garden! So, my idea for this project is a space where people can draw flowers to add to the garden and stars to add to the night sky. The website is very raw bones for now, but I have a bit of experience with JS already, and I don’t want to focus too much on that at the start. Goals: -Learn how to use Python and numpy for the image classification, beginner ML things, -Get better at backend, since the drawings will have to be uploaded, -Cute website (with color selection, eraser, etc!). As the images show, I managed to get the drawing function of the canvas to work, as well as a clear button (and a very very raw-bones UI, ignore that!). The canvas drawing was both harder and easier than I expected: I had to learn new JS parts that I had never used before, but a lot of people have done this before me, so I was able to reference a few Medium blogs/articles. I also have attached my ideal map for how it will look—overall it will be pretty simple in functionality, and I hope to learn a lot from it :DD. PS: can anyone tell me how to add newlines to the devlogs, I’m having trouble making my devlogs more organized.
Call me a Harry Potter fan for my slack-bot commands!! In all honesty, this was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It wasn’t crazy difficult by any means, but I ran into a lot of issues calling API commands, accidentally using outdated JS code (anyone else fall for res.map() vs. res.map??), and trying to trace which part of my code was broken and why. A lot of times, I just needed to commit to GitHub since the Nest version ran that… but I’m able to have my bot show me Harry Potter spells and houses!!!
Running into issues — my Harry Potter public API request for a list of spells and their uses isn’t working properly right now. My next steps are to fix it or find out what’s wrong and then host it 24/7 on Next!
