Digital Ocean + MongoDB Hackathon

Digital Ocean + MongoDB Hackathon

Part 1

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2 min read

Preface

Recently, a friend of mine mentioned that a Digital Ocean & MongoDB Hackathon was taking place. This seemed like a great opportunity to continue learning & to peer into Digital Ocean & MongoDB products, so I was happy to jump on board. We quickly formed a team of three & later added our last member!

  • Miguel Hernandez
  • Jesse Moore
  • Zac Wilson

The Challenge

Using MongoDB and Digital ocean:

  • Build a CRUD app with a UI

  • Blog about how and what you’re building.

  • Deploy & Submit your app

The Brainstorm

Thinking of decent ideas for applications is NOT easy, we spoke about ideas for quite some time. Ultimately, we landed on an idea for a community based CRUD application for coding challenges with savable code snippets. Then came time to decide the tech stack, this was a bit easier to do. We threw around a few different ideas, but settled on using:

  • Front-End: React, Next.js
  • Back-End: Node.js, Nest.js
  • Database: MongoDB
  • CSS Framework: Tailwind CSS

let it be known, these are all new technologies for me

The Dance

So, at this point we have our idea & our tech stack picked out. One of the members spent the rest of the evening creating a UI mock up. After that, we started a Trello board to keep track of our project tasks. Now we began to select tasks. One member wanted to work solely on the backend, the other member wanted to work the front end, I wanted to be somewhere in the middle. Also, since I have been blogging recently, I got the task of blogging and writing the README file.

To Be Continued

In the next blog, I will be going over some functionality of the app as a whole, as well as diving further into our process.

Thanks for reading.