📋 Textshare

A webapp like Pastebin.. where you can share your notes publicly for others to view and share.

✨ Features :

• Clipboard : Where you can type your notes on, and then share.
• Paste Expiry: Users can set an expiration time for their pastes or notes.
• Paste View Limit: Allows users to limit how many times others can view their notes.
• Clip Share: Users can share a clip or paste with others using a unique URL.

🗒️ Design decisions :

• Chose Supabase-db (postgresql) for persistance, and to ensure the number of database connections stays within safe limits when using serverless deployment -using transaction pooling service.
• Used Curl program for Manually testing the server before deployment, which improved the robustness of the application
• Row locking transactions are used for database queries - thus preventing race conditions that can occur in concurrent requests.
• Backend built with Express (Node.js) and frontend with React, ensuring separation of concerns for streamlined development and debugging
• Implemented deterministic expiry testing to simplify the testing process.
• Deployed the application on Vercel with the backend running as serverless functions.

⚙️ Local Setup :

1. Clone the repo : git clone git@github.com:ramarthyasc/textshare.git
2. Navigate to 'server' directory, then run npm install - to install the required dependencies for the backend. Then npm run dev for running the server at port 5000.
3. Create a '.env' file inside 'server' directory, and input NODE_ENV=development, DATABASE_URL=<put-your-db-url-here>, PORT=5000
4. Open a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/ for running the server locally.
5. Now, navigate to 'client' directory, then run npm install - to install the required dependencies for the frontend. Then npm run dev for running the Vite server at port 5173.
6. Open a browser, and go to http://localhost:5173/ - to run the app locally.