hwanderlust / shashin

An image fetching practice app

Shashin

Shashin, Japanese for picture, is a basic image fetching app via Unsplash.

Get started

1. Clone repo
2. Get an API Access Key from Unsplash and save to a .env file
3. From within the project directory, run node server/index.js to start the backend so you can fetch images from Unsplash
4. Open up /app/index.html to gain access to the frontend and start searching for images

MVP

1. Fetch images based on user query from 3rd party API
2. Display images
3. Show image and image details, if any, in a modal when selected

Future updates

• Refactor and modulize JS
• Lazy load / Virtualize / Windowize more images when user reaches toward the bottom of the scrolling window
• Properly cache all fetched images for a given query to minimalize additional and unnecessary fetches and downloads
• Transition / animation for opening and closing modal
• Loading state after submitting a query to fetch images
• Tests (user, snapshot, end-to-end)
• Fallback CSS for unsupported features (gap, aspect-ratio, etc.)
• Further error handling states
• Builder tool / packager to minimize code