Blog App

An Assessment Project.

A simple app that displays blog posts by authors using the Json Placeholder API.

✨✨ Features

Viewing posts.
Bookmarking posts.
Sharing posts.
Search (By Title)

🛠 Essential Plugins / Packages Used

Dartz (For Funtional Programming - Mostly used for error handling and introducing Tuples in my case)
Http
Hive (For Local Storage)
Bloc (For State Management)
Internet Connection Checker
Equatable (For checking equality of Objects)
Get-It (For Dependency Injection)

Getting Started

You have to have Flutter installed in your machine. Clone this repository and run flutter pub get. I am currently running Flutter version 3.7.6 with Dart version 2.19.3.

📖 Brief

This project as previously stated is a simple blog app for users to read blog posts. They can share, search and bookmark posts.

It also includes a Caching mechanism that stores posts locally, this is so that the user has something to read when there is no internet connection (I understand that this might make errors hard to see, so to really see how errors are handled, please make sure to clear app data and run the app without internet connection to see how errors are displayed).

Edge case: The user details were not returned when making the /posts request call on our API so I had to make another call to get the list of users, then match the returned userId against the users id to get the name of the author. I returned both Posts and Users for every request made using a Tuple. This allows for cleaner and less verbose code. I applied this to every other parts where the Users (Authors) were needed.