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Introducing Yokie - A Recipe Sharing Social Media WebApp

Jason on April 20, 2020

I would like to share a small project I've been working on for the past few days. Yokie! Yokie is a recipe site that I always wanted but was never...
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Michael Tharrington

This is an excellent idea! Bookmarked. ❤️

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Pato

Congrats on your project! Out of curiosity, why did you decide to use Firestore and Algolia? Great tools tho, I'm asking because they can't get expensive fast.

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Jason

Mostly because of how fast it is to integrate, since I have experience with both in the past, it was very easy to setup quickly without looking at any documentation.

Regarding the price, I find firestore's free tier to be more than enough for most side projects, same with algolia free tier

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Pato

yeah I agree you can get a fullstack web app working in now time!! keep killing it

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mmmrks

Did you have some alternatives in mind? What would you use?

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Pato

firestore is awesome and easy to setup! but i would have probably done it with MongoDB atlas BUT doing the backend setup etc takes time which is def a down side

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Very great website ! 🎉🎉🎉
However, I'm French and the mesures is not coherent, only for USA people's, any update on the future for that? ☕

Oh and you SEO is not showed.

See my post if you want learn more about that :

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Nico S___

Looks great, I just found a small UI issue in the directions section
directions ui issue

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Jason

Oh strange, I haven't noticed that. Thanks for letting me know!

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Nico S___

happens in all the recipes for me, using latest Chrome on mac

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Nico S___

Would be great to be able to login with Twitter or even DEV :)

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Jason

Coming soon! 😉

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Valeria

Cool! I like Yokie! ❤️