Posts tagged #web app

📔 🔐 ~ Encrypted journal app with Gatsby + Userbase

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Are you wondering how you could create an encrypted web app like POW?

Well lucky you! In my Gatsby Days 2020 talk Gatsby + UserBase = Encrypted Menstrual Cycle Journal, I talk about just that.

The talk includes a little POW! back story and a walk-through of a simplified journaling app to focus on how you can do authenticated client-side only routes with Gatsby.

Check out The Ugliest Journal on Github to dive into the code.

All the best,
Queen Raae

PS: Remember to give the video a thumbs up!

💥 🎉 ~ Happy International Women's Day and POW!'s second birthday

Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

It's International Women's Day and not so coincidentally also POW!'s second birthday!

You might be wondering:

What is POW?

POW! is the the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal I created as a proof of concept when working on the talk A privacy first period tracker? Is it even possible?

Why is it relevant?

POW! is built with Gatsby. The code so far is open source, and we'll be working on migrating the marketing site (currently on Squarespace 😳) to Gatsby — I see interesting POW! themed Gatsby Deep-Dives in our future....

How can I help?

We need folks willing to be interviewed about their current cycle logging habits. If that is you, or someone you know, send an email to hello@usepow.app or DM me on Twitter @raae.

All the best,
Queen Raae

PS: Cap'n Ola's birthday present to POW! is a new crew member. Read all about it on olavea.com.

📺 👩‍💻 ~ Client-side only routes with Gatsby

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

The Gatsby Conf announcement reminded me of how this whole YouTube thing started. In April of 2020, I got asked if I wanted to submit a talk for Gatsby Virtual Days. I did, and Gatsby sent over a microphone, and a ring light... and the rest, as they say, is history 🤪

The talk walks you through how to create client-side only routes for authenticated users in Gatsby, following the approach found in the Gatsby Docs.

These days I like to generate a skeleton version of even these pages statically, then sprinkle in the user-specific data when it's loaded and ready. However, the above is still valid and is an excellent approach when converting an existing React app to Gatsby!

Have you used Gatsby in a more app-like project?
Let me know!

All the best,
Queen Raae

PS: Tonight we are helping Mirjam with the Conference Buddy v2 authentication flow, not tags as previously announced in Monday's email.