PasteHub

cs390wap final project

PasteHub backend

The backend and frontend integration is not complete (honestly neither is complete), but this is what my backend is so far:

PocketBase - Instead of building out a backend infrastructure myself, I figured I would use PocketBase as the foundation of my backend. I also tried SupaBase, but I didn't want to have a Docker container running on my computer since that has more overhead.
pb_schema.json - Configuration for the PocketBase backend, which you can just import into a fresh PocketBase instance.

How to get it working:

Download PocketBase from website (It's a standalone executable so you don't have to install it. It might require Go to work since it is written in Go, but I personally doubt that it will.).
Run ./pocketbase serve and open http://localhost:8090/_/ in web browser
Log in on admin screen.
Navigate to Settings > Import Collections.
Either load pb_schema.json or copy its contents into the text box to import it.
PocketBase should now be prepared for the database.
In ./server/pb_backup/, run npm i and node index.mjs to populate the backend with some data.
Your database (with some test data) should be fully ready!

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

My notes:

It's functional but there is some stuff that doesn't work at the moment.
The documentation for this React page is straight up wrong and it cost me at least 40 minutes trying to figure out why. Essentially, the action attribute of the <form> component expects strings only, but the onSubmit attribute of the component expects functions only. It tells us to use action while passing in a function, and cue me being extremely confused for over half an hour. I want to die.
The path forward would be to fix the things that don't work (namely setting up an additional backend service to conduct fetch requests on PokePaste so that I don't have to deal with CORS, and fixing my issues with my App component randomly sending the PokePaste data to the backend multiple times).