Building FertKnowledge - Part 2

Story so far

• ⚓ Building FertKnowledge in public to learn and how to build & operate a SaaS offering
• ⚓ Got a functional website up and running at https://fertknowledge.vercel.app/
• ⚓ Code at https://github.com/jags14385/fertknowledge

Features

Made the following changes :

• 🧰 Added a tag line to make it sound fancy 🔥🔥🔥
• 🧰 Updated the favicon 🌽🌽🌽
  • 🧰 learnt how to update the default favicon
• 🧰 Made changes to the graphQL query to get info for
  • 🧰 chemical group of the active constituent in the fertilizer
  • 🧰 constituent code of the active constituent in the fertilizer
  • 🧰 constituent name of the active constituent in the fertilizer
• 🧰 Updated the UI to render the extra details that were queried
• 🧰 Removed the search Button and updated the search on change for more than 2 characters

Takeaways

• 📖 Learnt how to make changes incremental changes to UI
• 📖 How render arrays in React
• 📖 How to update favicon
• 📖 Figured out what the UI lacks:
  • 🚧 Spinner to show loading / data fetching state
  • 🚧 Better CSS and animations
  • 🚧 Website is not responsive
  • 🚧 Automated data pipeline to data population
  • 🚧 Server side and client side caching
  • 🚧 Monitoring
  • 🚧 Sentry integration is lacking
  • 🚧 Tests : Unit, integration and Visual
  • 🚧 No Auth flow in UI yet
  • 🚧 CI pipeline
    • Have CD already via Vercel, Heroku & Hasura cloud