My closest friend only uses email and over the years I have grown tired of writing a heading and a body every time to share something with him.
So I built this very simple link sharing board which generates boards with uuids and as long as you know the uuid, you can see the links on the page and add new links.
It is built with Imba (which was fantastic) and Supabase as the DB. Deployed on Netlify.
Sharing in case there is someone else who might find this useful.
are you willing to share the Imba code for us to learn from? and how was the debugging experience on Chrome? Was there a large barrier to go from compiled down JS code to Imba source?
And here is one of the components:
import supabase, { UNIQUE_VIOLATION_CODE } from '../constants' import normalizeUrl from 'normalize-url' import './links-list'
tag pad-page
loading = false
links
err\string
newUrl\string
def routed
fetchLinks!
def fetchLinks
loading = true
let {data, error} = await supabase.rpc('select_links_from_pad', { pad_id_input: route.params.id })
.order('created_at', {ascending: false})
loading = false
if error
log error.message
return
links = data
imba.commit!
def addLink
if newUrl
const {data, error} = await supabase.rpc('insert_link_into_pad', {
pad_id_input: route.params.id,
url_input: normalizeUrl(newUrl, {defaultProtocol: 'https:'})
})
if error..code == UNIQUE_VIOLATION_CODE
err = 'link already added'
setTimeout(&, 3000) do
err = ''
imba.commit!
elif error
return
newUrl = ''
links.unshift(data)
<self>
<div[mt:5]>
<label[mr:3]> 'add a link'
<input
[bg:red4 c:white]=err
type='url'
bind=newUrl
@keydown.enter=addLink
>
<button[ml:1] @click=addLink> 'Add'
if err
<p[c:red5]> err
<links-list loading=loading links=links>They have a really cool effect on their homepage, curious how it works.
Imba is a real pleasure to work with. I have only good things to say about it. It brought back the joy in web programming for me.