Build an e-commerce site... with a twist — Web Dev Challenge S1E3

Sponsored by Algolia (https://lwj.dev/algolia) — What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Sidney Buckner, Alex Trost, Shaundai Person, and Jason Lengstorf took on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. *THE CHALLENGE* _Build an e-commerce site... with a twist._ E-commerce makes the world go round, and we wanted to challenge the devs to shake up the standard e-comm approaches with something different. *THE TOOL* Apps must use Algolia (https://lwj.dev/algolia) as part of the build. Algolia provides solutions for quickly adding search, recommendations, and more to web apps with pre-built components, fast responses, and painless integration. #webdevelopment #challenge #javascript #ecommerce #reactjs #typescript #css *THE DEVS* Sidney Buckner (@SidneyBuckner) https://instagram.com/shidonichan Alex Trost (@TrostCodes) https://trost.codes Shaundai Person (@shaundai) https://linktr.ee/shaundai Jason Lengstorf (‪@codetv-dev) https://jason.energy/links *THE ADVISOR* Nick Vlku https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickvlku/ *THE APPS* Shaundai's Procrastinator's Paradise: https://github.com/shaundai/procrastinators-paradise Sidney's Final Fantasy Team Builder: https://github.com/SidneyBuckner/my-monsters-learn-with-jason Alex's Nan's Knits: https://github.com/a-trost/nans-blankets Jason's Movie Picker: https://github.com/learnwithjason/wdc-movie-match ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Join me in building a happier, healthier, friendlier web dev community! https://lwj.dev/newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 0:00 In this episode... 0:39 The challenge 1:15 What is Algolia? 2:26 Meet Jason 3:13 Meet Shaundai 4:06 Meet Sidney 4:45 Meet Alex 6:01 Building 14:31 Demo time! 14:50 Shaundai's app 16:51 Sidney's app 19:00 Alex's app 21:22 Jason's app 24:09 Final thoughts