Project Ephemeris
Full-fledged calendar application
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A full-fledged calendar application with support for multiple calendars, repeated events, and best of all, dark mode. It has four view modes: year, month, week, and day. Additionally, there is a good screen reader and keyboard navigation support.
Online demo
You can try out the live version at project-ephemeris.vercel.app.
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Technologies used
JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
MySQL
Things learned
I am a heavy calendar user and consider myself experienced with it. Yet, it's not until I tried to design a calendar that I started to realize the complexities of a good calendar system.
There are big and glaring things like time zones and subtleties as inconspicuous as an algorithm for most efficiently placing overlapping events on a grid.