Tool

Twitter Image Feed

As a Twitter user who primarily follows fellow artists and game developers as a way to get inspired, I found it troublesome to quickly and efficiently browse the Twitter timeline when I wasn't in the mood to claw through personal quips and anecdotes, irrelevant retweets and unscrupulous advertising. As a result, I created Twitter Image Feed, a tool that shows search results as an image grid, without all the extra noise. Using the search bar, one can search words, hashtags, as well as filter by user.

This project was created using React, with Express as a backend API endpoint that returns parsed results from the Twitter API (Twitter does not allow CORS, which necessitates server-side requests). Originally, I had planned to use Redux for global state management, but quickly realized that it was overkill for my needs and left it in a separate Git branch.

Twitter Image Feed instead uses React Hooks extensively for state management, leveraging useState and passing state as props through components.