New Frontend Features!

The sticker streak motivated me to keep adding a little bit by bit to my diary project even though school has started. 🥳
So, what’s new?

• New Entries!
  In the past, clicking “New Entry” would just open the old entry. Now it adds a fresh new entry to your list of entries!
• Entry List
  As you make new entries, it will show all of your entries in concise boxes for you to scroll through, displaying the title and date.
• Discard Changes
  A fancy new button that will close your entry without saving your changes
• Arrow Buttons
  The newest addition yet that I’ve been meaning to do: adding arrows that let you click through your entries! Now VSCode will stop bugging me about my unused variables haha

So, what’s next?

• Bug Fixes
  Unfortunately, the bug where saving an entry causes others to become duplicates of it has arose again and must be smashed
• Deleting Entries
  Shouldn’t be too hard, just gotta leave stuff for future me to do
• Search Function
  Eventually I want to be able to search for entries at least by title
• Backend
  One day I will get to it…so I can finally save my entries on browser reload…

I’ve gotten started on adding the ability of entries to pre-populate stored text (title and body). Since I haven’t implemented a backend yet (sooo I kinda got a bit carried away working on Boba Cats! And this project hasn’t gotten as much love and attention…but I’m hoping to get it working eventually!), I used a temporary entry variable for testing purposes (you can see it in the code if you take a careful look!) And yes, I shared a screenshot of the code this time instead of the actual site since there’s not much change in the visuals of the site! Next, I’m working on adding a date function (but the element is in the wrong place! So I won’t show until I fix it haha)

Fixed problems so website can be deployed, added functionality to close button for entries

For background, I started this project the month before June. It was very basic though, I didn’t get too much done…
because most of the time spent was battling the error of the blank screen of death!
It had something to do with dependencies not being installed and NavLink (which I was using to have different pages for the main page, diary, and to-do list) acting up. But I figured it out eventually!