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IP Address Tracker with React and Vite

axios, react, vite
Olalekan Ben•80
@Olalekan-Adeyeye
A solution to the IP Address Tracker challenge
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Solution retrospective

It was really challenging and at the same time fulfilling. Uhm, some of the challenges I faced while coding are:

  1. Geolocation-db.com API (used to get user IP) returning crazy IP at times.
  2. React-leaflet map failing to work due to problem with CSS height property(took me a long time and a lot of googling to figure out).
  3. React-leaflet marker image not showing and at times pointing to wrong position (I did try my best to fix it with answers found on stackoverflow).
  4. fetch API returns CORS error most times (Axios fixed it but I don't know why axios would work and fetch wouldn't).
  5. Package.json showing error with no fault (a quick stroll through stackoverflow fixed it - Restart VSCode. Voila!).
  6. Images on the page not showing on production build and deployment to Netlify server (Happens that I was the one making the mistake all along - I spent all evening on this).

Well, I have a ton of things to write but that's all for now.

I will really like your suggestions on ways I can improve the code for faster and better performance

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  • Luiz Júnior•110
    @LuizAPJunior

    Hi! I looked a little bit into your code, here a couple of suggestions to improve your app:

    -I tried to search for a domain but I received an error message, it seems like you used the ipAddress parameter on Ipify's URL so I would recommend it to change ipAddress to domain so you can search for either ip adress or domain(just like in DNS) using the domain parameter.

    -You don't need to use geolocation-db to get the ip of the current user, in Ipify if you don't specify the ipAddress and domain parameters in URL the request will return the current user's IP (e.g. if you request https://geo.ipify.org/api/v2/country,city?apiKey=${API_KEY} will return your own IP ).

    -In case the maker still pointing to the wrong position, search for the useMap() hook from react-leaflet and the property setView(keep in mind that you can only call a hook in react components and at the top level).

    I hope that helps, best of luck!

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