Bugs/feedbacks for codedamn playgrounds

[mehulmpt]

Hey everyone
I hope you're having a great time participating in codedamn's hacktoberfest build-a-project event! We're working hard on improving the playground (the area where you build projects on codedamn.com). We want to make it robust, lightweight and super simple to use.

Please use this issue to discuss any minor problems you faced on playgrounds, or if you have tips/suggestions around improving the developer experience (DX) over there.

[annezao]

Hi @mehulmpt. It was really nice to improve my frontend skills participating with you and I know many people enjoy it too. I think all the plataform it's awesome and fast, sometimes takes time to refresh our files but it's just understandable.

I'm facing a problem with my submission. I put a lot of effort finish my project (disney clone project) and it won't accept because you guys claim my landing page is missing. I don't know what happened because I make all pages even slide and hover animations... The page is really missing when I open my project on codedamn plataform but that's not my fault. If you guys check the styesheet file (style.css), all the landing page style is there (check .landing selector) but the landing page just disappeared. Maybe there's a problem when refresh or saving different versions on the server?

[mehulmpt]

Hi @annemacena
When you say "the page is really missing", what do you mean? I am able to see your solution?

[annezao]

@mehulmpt well, for this project there are two pages to be build: the homepage (index.html) and the landing page. When I finished my project, I made two HTML pages related to what was required and submitted. But now there's just one HTML file.
I don't know what happened, the other HTML file disappeared.

[ashuvssut]

Playground didn't autosave my progress. I lost my code that I was writing sitting for an whole hour. Then the playground said that it has lost connection somehow. Then page refreshed... all my code was gone...

I had to rewrite everything that I wrote in that whole hour😣

please implement a feature like manual file saving or something. Autosave in not reliable in that playground

[mehulmpt]

Hey @ashuvssut, after the update done this week, this is very improbable because your code is automatically saved on the container running inside the cloud. It would not matter if your connection is lost, because it is not saved from your computer. The moment you write something, the updates are sent immediately to the backend container and files are synced to S3.

Happy to take a look inside your playground and send you a history of your work if you'd like.

FYI: Your full code is saved on every keystroke on AWS S3

[ashuvssut]

@mehulmpt can we have a feature to manually save our progress? Its re assures that our code is saved

in case the connection is lost... the manual save feature will save the current files to browser localStorage.
When we again connect to playground... client can compare the files saved in localStorage with the files on cloud. If they are identical... then its cool, else, files are sent from localStorage to cloud to update the files in cloud.

[mehulmpt]

@ashuvssut Sure, we'll consider this on product roadmap

[VaarunSinha]

have a feature on the project viewing page to interact with the website made by us and to view the code. and autodetect technologies and say: Made with: HTML CSS JS .
By The Way My Code is merged to the repo does that mean I am getting a swag? or there is another process after that?