Second Weekly Report

Issues, successes

This week went more or less as expected. The 'Liveview' project is nearing its completion with only a few minor issues still present.

• Social media sharing buttons were implemented

This was more hands-on than expected. For example, an "App ID" had to be registered in order to gather statistics for Facebook. There was also an issue with Twitter rendering its buttons prior to the data required for it was loaded.

This was solved by manually reloading the twit library.

Another issue that arose was having to generate shortened URLs client-side. As it turns out the most popular URL shortening library, bit.ly does not allow this.

Eventually a decision was made to use Google's URL shortening service. Besides a few administrative tasks (setting up an app ID, generating keys, etc.) this went quite smoothly.

Facebook also requires the use of og metadata in order to generate a correct share modal. (See reference here).

Facebook's Open Graph Debugger was very helpful for this issue.

• The build file was streamlined

The build file still had some issues such as not setting the correct node environment on compilation. This made React stay in "development mode" which had a performance impact.

Requiring other files was also becoming quite a hassle if the file in question was not in the immediate

Schedule

As previously mentioned, this week's schedule went as expected. The only unexpected issue was social sharing taking quite a long time.

Next week will probably involve fixing a range of mobile games and web apps.

While this is not particularly exciting, I do look forward to digging into other La Mosca products after having spent quite a lot of time on a single project!