Coding Challenge #69 - Notion

Coding Challenge #69 Build Your Own Notion Clone

This challenge is to build your own version of Notion.

Notion is a note-taking app. It’s the tool I use to write all my LinkedIn post and the Coding Challenges.

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The Challenge - Building A Notion Clone

For this Coding Challenge we are going to build a clone of the core, essential bits of Notion. To me those are the bits I use daily. Which includes being able to login, create a page / duplicate a page, edit pages and re-oder pages.

Step Zero

For this step you’re going to set your environment up, ready to begin developing and testing your solution.

You’re going to be building a backend service, which will need some persistent data store. You’ll also want to build a frontend that uses the backend.

I’m suggesting you build it with separate frontend and backend components so you can experiment with building an API - it’s an opportunity to learn?RESTful APIs?if you’ve never done it. Or if you’ve done plenty of REST perhaps experiment with?gRPC?or?GraphQL. Have fun learning something new is the safe space that is?Coding Challenges!

I’ll leave you to setup your IDE / editor of choice and programming language of choice.

Step 1

In this step your goal is to create a home page and the flow that will allow a user to register and login. Notion often uses one time codes for this, you might like to try that versus passwords. As we saw in the build your own password cracker coding challenge, passwords can be vulnerable.

Continued...

You can find the remaining steps for this challenge on the Coding Challenges website as build your own Notion clone.