For our final project at Ironhack we had to create a MERN stack application. I bounced around a couple ideas, mainly small simple games, but ultimately decided to make a portfolio for myself. It doesn't really look like a MERN app but behind the scenes this frontend talks to an api I wrote which then fetches all of the content from a database. There are user accounts but only one and you can't create more since it's really just a way for me to edit, post, and delete entries. I know the website looks very simple, I'm not a designer. I just made what I thought looked nice and used the colors from the terminal I use.
For our second project at Ironhack we needed to make a website or application using what we recently learned, which was backend stuff. I choose to make a forum site modeled off of forum sites from the web 1.0 and early 2.0 era. Unfortunately it looks like it went down. I'm honestly not very proud of it because the final product looked awful and dated even compared to the same sites that inspired it. Functionally, it worked. You could signup and login, and you could post to boards and comment on those posts. I didn't add anyway to delete your account or what you posted because I wanted to get across the idea that whatever you do online stays there forever. FUTURE EDIT: Unfortunately, nothing does really last forever. I made this site on herokuapp, which removed their free tier of hosting. The site is currently Offline.
Some time between the first and second projects we did a hackathon. Within about 8 hours(?) we had to make some sort of app with expressJS and handlebars. I decided to do a little joke therapy app, which did actually catch a few of the people I showed it to off guard. Thera is a shock therapy app but it doesn't tell you about the "shock" part. After entering your greatest fear it then redirects you to a page with a bunch of image search results of that fear. FUTURE EDIT: I made this site on herokuapp, which removed their free tier of hosting. The site is currently Offline.
Roguish is an attempt at a recreation of the game Rogue from the 80s. It was my submission for the first project at Ironhack. At that point we had only just learned the basics of web development, so javascript, html, and css. In my usual fashion, I tried making something really ambitious. After pressting "ENTER" to start the game youre dropped in a randomly generated map, which was really difficult to make. You can then navigate with your arrow keys to get to the next level. Thats really it in its current form. All of the rendering is through a canvas and javascript. It was really ambitious and with only very basic tools it really burnt me out.