The idea with this project was to be creative, have fun and practise my skills in React and Typescript. I wanted to build it like a small treasure-hunt, making the reciever search for some breadcrumbs to be able to move on. I sketched up the design and each of the steps in Figma. I also created a gameplan for what would happen on each page, with the purpose that the function itself should challenge me code-wise.
I started setting up the basic structure and from there I continued with a page by page approach. After a while I realised that creating to many secrets and breadcrumbs might defeat my purpose(to ask someone out) by making it to difficult and could leave me without an actual date! I therefore simplified the treasure-hunt and created tiny ridiculous features on each page instead.
If I would give this project more time, I would add more of a treasure-hunt take on it after all, and include some more css created animations to make it more dynamic.
Important
Since I wanted it to feel somewhat oldschool, I made the descision to not make this responsive to mobile. Might fix that in the future. Also, as always, it works the best in Chrome or anything but Safari 🤓
View it live – Be my valentine