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Designed hollow medals
Switched from localStorage to db for storing updating and retrieving completed courses data
Added feature to show medals achieved by user

Designing the hollow medals (I don’t know what to call that so I’ll just say hollow medal) was really fun. I just started designing the medal for fun in Figma. The result turned out really great even better than what I had expected. I was using circles for the medal itself and was trying to use the rectangles for the below design. Later I figured that it would be wiser to use the pencil instead of creating a rectangle and mapping out the bottom portion of the medal which turned out to be a great idea.

In this project, I have started using Figma for creation of some assets and I am loving it so far my intention is to keep on using Figma until and unless I really have to use AI.

Switching from localStorage to database for completed courses data was easy in my head but it took me longer than expected mainly because of three reasons.

Firstly, I was thinking of creating a separate backend endpoint for course data. After creating the controller and route for course data I thought that it isn’t really necessary to create another endpoint for this as we can store it in the users data itself.

Secondly, after deleting the routes and controller, I created API function for fetching and updating the completed course data period I had forgotten that I don’t actually need to have a separate getCompleted function because while fetching the user itself, the data comes with it. I have forgotten to delete the getCompleted.js file which I will do later.

Thirdly, I have started to use Postman for testing out api . I am loving to learn things such as Postman and Figma. But this issue I was facing was the postman was working correctly but from my codebase the request body was showing undefined. It was a fetch thing I use axios before and I am figuring out right now why people used axios. It seems that I needed to specify in the header that this request had the content of json. So figuring that out also took some time.

Also, I have added the feature to show medals achieved by user. The code isn’t quite clean for this feature.

Thanks to the people that followed this project. I genuinely appreciate that 💖.

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