Google Drive Clone

Finally managed to get the trash directory working, need to make the folders work for this, but it should hopefully be a lot easier now that I know how the files work. Also need to fix the thumbnail things for the trash directory cuz I think it’s crashing the backend for some reason.

Because of a lot of my older work, reimplementing file uploads was pretty easy, but it took me awhile to figure out that the errors saying the upload failed were because of remnants of code still trying to connect to the DB, lol.

Got the “Parent Bar” to show nested directories and made you able to go back through them individually. Probably will need to add a … thingy at some point for longer directories, but it should be able to fit a lot of em for now tho.

Pretty small update, but I repaired the navigation bar. Now I’ll probably want to make it show the full file path, but for now, it works as it did before with the DB.

Finally got to fixing the random backend crashes. Admittedly most of what I did was just paste stuff into ChatGPT, but thankfully the fixes were pretty easy (as you could probably tell by the dev time. It was pretty much just using a slightly wrong variable name in some places.) Hopefully with this fix I won’t have to be having to figure out whether or not the stuff I built is actually working or ghosting me, lol.

Turns out getting the stuff to work on subsequent directories was pretty easy. All I needed to do was change the :id at the end of the routes to /* then the params.id to just params[0] to grab the whole route. I’ve been sent on wild goose chases to figure out why some stuff wasn’t working, only to find it later just working despite me only writing debug lines. Also need to figure out why the backend sometimes just randomly crashes since it forces me to manually restart the website which is kinda annoying.

Finally managed to get mp4 files working, though I need to adapt the thing to work for other file types as well (hopefully won’t be too hard.)

Still need to get some of the stuff working a tad bit better… namely getting videos to be able to play again but the images are working out quite nicely

Removed some of the user verification stuffs and stuff and suddenly the thumbnails appeared (and the gif on the left plays.) Having ChatGPT look at it helped me catch that one stupid lil mistake, lol (I was trying to read at the filenames instead of the filepaths). I now have to figure out why the icons are not appearing for the files inside folders, but at least I got one part of it workieing.

Dunno how it happened, but some things broke and after not being on this for so long it was a bit annoying to remember how things work and such, but I managed to fix the small lil bugs and then make the directory stuff work for files. Next should be fixing thumbnails and such, tho also making /something/something work as well, but hopefully that’ll just be easy.

Made the folders read based on the url above, just need to make it search more than one folder (it seems as if the pages only load if there’s only 1 /whatever after the /folder) and then make the files do the same thing. Then I can get to repairing the uploads and such (as the account system is drastically changing.)

This took way longer than it should have, but I got the folders working the same way that the files do. Now I got to make the secondary directories work so that files are actually useful. (And then fixing the thumbnails and such…)

Managed to get the files to appear without an account (pretty much step 1 to decoupling it from mongo,) so now I can hopefully fix the thumbnails again and eventually make the accounts give the route to look for files in