My experience at DU Hacks 3.0

So, what is DU Hacks 3.0?

DU Hacks 3.0 is 36 hour-long hackathon (breaks included), in which hackers create and develop something that impacts the developer society positively. I participated in it, it was my second hackathon.

What did I made?

I made a simple Markdown to HTML converter that uses showdown npm package under the hood, made an interface you get to interact with, using minimal design and styling, running on express server. Though you can still make it work globally over the internet using cloudflared, a cloudflare service that lets you create a tunnel through which your localhost is connected to global url that service provides, with which all the traffic is maintained.

What did I learn?

1. Surface understanding of fetch api.

2. HTML forms usage in backend.

3. Publishing, updating NPM packages.

4. Connecting frontend to backend.

What to do next?

With this hackathon I understood that there are countless possibilities to development and to not give up without even trying. My project is subpar, I know but what's important at the end of my day is what did I learn and my clarity of thoughts on what to do next.

So I'm going to make projects, on the tech I'm learning and participate in hackathons with team, until now I've only ever been participating as sole hacker but will try to be on a team. Good for motivation, learning and becoming social.