Summary

MemeSite is a website for generating random memes using components from user-submitted content. Users can upload memes in three parts: a picture, top text, and bottom text. These components are stored in a PostgreSQL database.

Originally, MemeSite was a project to explore Python and Flask. However, it quickly evolved into a way to experiment with TypeScript, Node.js, and React. For the backend API, I utilized PostgreSQL, TypeORM, TypeScript, and Express. The frontend was built with React and TypeScript.

As an early project in my programming journey, MemeSite taught me a lot but also included many mistakes. This experience led me to rewrite the backend in C# using EF Core, which can be found here.

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The projects code can be found here.

Extras

I also made an integration with a minecraft mod called computercraft where a meme from the site would be rendered in game on some monitors:

This integration was written in lua on the in game terminal, and i was unfortunate enough to lose this world, so the code is lost to time.