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\"NRJohnson

I created this site to feature some of my creative writing. I have since put writing on hold, but this site serves as a more recent example of my skills. It's a single page site of my own design. Simpler than React.js or Next.js, my site loads whole pages rather than individual components. The purpose behind this is provide the visitor with a fast, smooth experience without the choppy page loading of standard page navigation.

Obstacles:

I wrote the stories on a platform called Vocal. I wanted to share my writing in my own space but link back to the Vocal site. They don't have an API so doing this efficiently took some creative thinking.

Notifying interested readers of new stories was on my mind as I created this. I wanted to way for people to opt into email notifications that didn't require me to build an extensive system of my own.

Solutions:

I created a web scraper designed to scan specific stories on Vocal and store important information in my database. This information is the source my webpage looks to when displaying my stories.

Mailchimp saved the day with its API. I was able to add contacts to a mailing list through my site in an efficient manner.

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