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10 JavaScript Projects in 1 Hour - Coding Challenge

Florin Pop on September 15, 2020

TL;DR: I completed a Coding Challenge in which I created: 10 JavaScript Projects in 1 Hour, all while being live on Twitch. You can find the recor...

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perpetual . education • Sep 16 '20 • Edited

This was super fun to watch!

We subscribed!

Here are the thoughts we had while watching:

You can also toggle a class to the body like .menu-open and then style the menu, button, and anything else based on that one point
You can probably do all of those challenges in the same project! :)
Using event delegation, you can get away from adding events specifically to buttons - and then maybe just add a rel='menu-toggle' to many places to trigger events.
You can also use a checkbox hack to toggle things and skip the events
One cool thing is that you can use pointer-events: none and opacity: 0 on some things - and it's like the modal is always there... but it's not in the way!
Close and open are often the same function
Could pass in an Object to the modal and use it in a template
Purple heart rain is really fun
Would be cool to try using @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {...
We find ourselves just reaching for template strings instead of document.create for fast things. Curious how you decide on that
Cool zoom implementation! Would be nice to toggle it

Dejan Antic • Sep 19 '20

Would love to se the video remade with these suggestions :)

perpetual . education • Sep 19 '20

Maybe we could pull together something similar. What are 10 things that you would actually want to do in a real project? (we do love purple rain hearts)... but if you have a short list, let us know.

Florin Pop • Sep 16 '20

I really appreciate your feedback and I'm happy you liked it! 💜

I probably knew 90% of what you mentioned above and you are right, I should have used those but being under the time pressure... 😅

Aneeqa Khan • Sep 15 '20

I love the rebeccapurple as well now :D
btw loved your video, it is insane you created these projects so fast. Thats awesome!

Florin Pop • Sep 15 '20

Happy you did!! 💜

MikeFarrow • Sep 18 '20

I love this masterpiece of quick fire presentation. Live coding is like speed dating for the normal, boring way of coding. A pioneer or this technique, Dan Shiffman made computing accessible to a new generation of non programmers using first, the Java based Processing language and then its port to Javascript, the P5 library.

Florin does the same for vanilla Javascript, HTML and CSS. It is debatable whether learning to code can ever be considered fun but Dan and Florin come closer to this ideal than many.

The art is to start with nothing or empty files and to create something that is engaging, visually attractive and functional in 5 minutes. You know that, if you could do this, you would ace any interview that you turned up at. Well maybe but it's a damn fine party trick, thanks Florin

Cornea Florin • Sep 15 '20

at this point when i get notified that you posted, instant like :))

all jokes aside, great job, keep up the good work!

Florin Pop • Sep 15 '20

Aww! Thank you 🙏

huylong • Sep 15 '20

great tutorials

dhillconsulting284-eng • Sep 24

Great challenge, Florin. It’s impressive how you managed to build 10 projects in under an hour while keeping the code simple and engaging. Your approach really shows how much can be learned from small, focused builds.

My own focus right now is on expanding my business into the U.S. and European markets, especially around AI and Machine Learning. Collaboration with other developers is a key part of that goal, and I find your projects inspiring because they highlight how creativity and speed can make coding fun and approachable.

Thanks for sharing this — it’s motivating to see what can be achieved under pressure.