@yeagerist

I’ve started working more on the backend! This time I focused on the lost and found reporting system, making sure the reports actually get sent through the API and saved properly in MongoDB. Each report is linked to the user who created it, along with things like the category, description, location, date, and image info. I also added some validation so the backend doesn’t just accept whatever the frontend sends. There were a few annoying little issues between the form, authentication, API and database, but I’ve got the main flow working now.

This time I worked on adding light and dark mode. Previously the button was just sitting there doing nothing.
Now the app can adapt to the user’s system theme instead of forcing them to pick one manually. If someone has their device set to dark mode, Lost&Found can follow that preference, while still giving them the option to switch between light and dark mode themselves.

Still doing some small tweaks here and there, but this might be the final goodbye to frontend now

Today I worked on the admin dashboard.

The idea behind it is to give me a simple overview of what’s happening across the platform instead of having to dig through individual reports.
It includes stats for total lost reports, found reports, resolved cases, recovery rate, average resolution time, and the most common item categories.

It doesn’t look the best but works for now..

Okay the progress is
I made a few changes and improvements across the app to make the main user flow feel more complete. Up untill now was just the frontend part.
I’ve also started working on the backend side of things, connecting the frontend features with the actual application logic and getting the necessary API functionality in place.
There’s still quite a bit to connect and test, but the project is gradually moving from just having separate features to having everything work together as one proper application.

I spent this session working on more of the Lost&Found frontend. I worked on the news feed, the UI for reporting both lost and found items, and the notifications frontend.
One thing I also noticed with Stardance: when I linked my other Hackatime projects (i was working on separate directories for client and server side) to this project, their tracked time got added to the time shown on my previous devlog. My first devlog originally showed around 1 hour, but after linking those projects it changed to 6h . It didn’t work like that previously on Flavortown.
Other than that, the frontend is coming together and I’m getting closer to having the main Lost → Match → Notification flow fully connected.

I’m working on a web-app which I’ve named ‘Lost&Found’.
As the name suggests, it’s a community help oriented, supportive, efficient and easy to use application which people can hop onto to search for their lost belongings. The idea is to create match between lost items and found items based on their descriptions and filters to finally get a confidence match score of whether the item is actually the one the user is looking for ( basically checking if lost-item = found-item )

For now, the actual countable work i’ve done is created a few icons for the web_app and finalised on one which is followed by same favicon.