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A Palace of Palettes with Appwrite

Overview of My Submission

My submission for the Appwrite Hackathon is Palace, a palette organising playground for people dealing with colour at palatial scale 😎ðŸĪŠ

Screenshot 1

This is borne out of my need for a tool to let me import, tweak, and export lots of palettes. And I thought it would be a great opportunity to try out the auth and database features of Appwrite for this hackathon!

The Appwrite features it uses are:

  • Anonymous sessions
  • Accounts
  • Database

I can tell I've only scratched the surface, as there's a lot of backend support in Appwrite too, which was just outside the scope of this project.

But it was great to be able to add server-backed save features for relatively little effort.

Submission Category:

Web2 Wizards

Link to Code

GitHub logo SteGriff / palace

Palette Ace




Additional Resources / Info

I wrote about the creation process in a previous post, but the tall and short of it is:

Screenshot 2

Challenges

I wanted Palace to have import/export to JSON and CSS, but didn't have time inside the hackathon. Those will come later 😊

AI had to use a spare domain to get the backend talking to the frontend over HTTPS; that was an unexpected challenge but it worked eventually.

Palace has one really big bug which is that data isn't isolated per user... everyone can edit everyone's data 😅... I set everything up as I thought I should in appwrite, and manually set permissions with user:$userId but still, the data leaks. Maybe somebody will comment and tell me what I did wrong!

Thanks for reading my entry -- happy hacking 😊

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