TheCountdown

Counting time, from any date to any date

Motivation   |    Features   |    Technologies   |    How to use   |    Learning outcomes   |    License

🔍 Motivation

The idea to build this project started from a personal need to know how much time was left for an event. This need inspired me to create TheCountdown. ⌛

Also, developing this project was a great way to practice my development skills by creating and publishing an application from scratch, which would solve a real problem in the world!

🚀 Features

• Flexible, interactive countdown timers, from any date to any date
• Simple, user-friendly interface
• Good user experience (UX) and visual feedback
• Responsive layouts, both mobile and desktop friendly

⚙️ Technologies

The main technologies and tools used in this project are the following:

• TypeScript
• React + Next.js
• Node.js

Deployed to Vercel

💻 How to use

TheCountdown is available at thecountdown.vercel.app. Check it out if you'd like to give it a try! 😉

💡 Learning outcomes

Building this project has proven to be a great way to learn, practice, and acquire experience with lots of interesting technologies. My main learning outcomes were related to:

• Planning, designing, developing and deploying this application from scratch. This includes going through possibilities, gathering resources, establishing priorities, responding to requirement changes and focusing on generating value for users.
• Providing a good user experience (UX) when selecting dates and time ranges, by creating a lightweight, simple, and intuitive interface.
• Using Agile methodologies, in order to enhance the development efficiency and deliver high-quality upgrades incrementally.
• Applying development best practices, such as clean code, separation of concerns, KISS and DRY, which are meant to keep the codebase easy to understand, maintain and extend.
• Using TypeScript, React, and Next.js, which are modern technologies employed in this project.
• Improving performance of components in React, and using static generation and server-side rendering with Next.js.
• Manipulating dates and time ranges, storing the created countdowns locally for a later session, and using gradients.
• Optimizing SEO (Search engine optimization) to a better indexation by search engines.
• Using analytics tools to understand user behavior and apply this knowledge to prioritize changes.

🗞️ License

This project is under MIT License. Check LICENSE for more information.

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Made by Diego Aquino 😎. Let's connect!