Alright folks, let me tell you about this little project I dove into recently. Saw this phrase “i love everything about u” floating around, and I thought, “Hey, why not actually do something with that?” Not just say it, but build it, y’know?
First off, I grabbed my laptop. Obvious start, right? Fired up my code editor – VS Code, in case you’re wondering. I needed a way to show this “love everything” idea. So, I started brainstorming. What screams “everything”? A bunch of stuff, obviously!
My initial thought? Images. Lots and lots of ’em. I went scouring for free image APIs. Found a couple that looked promising. Signed up, grabbed the API keys. Got myself ready to fetch some visuals.
Next, I needed some front-end to display all this. I kept it real simple. A basic HTML page with a little bit of CSS styling. Nothing fancy. The goal was to showcase the images, not win any design awards. I created divs to hold the images and some JavaScript to handle the API calls and image loading.
Okay, so the code part. I wrote a JavaScript function to hit the image APIs. I used the `fetch` API (naturally) to get the image data. Looped through the results, created image elements, and stuck ’em into my divs. Made sure to handle errors, too. You know, the usual “API down” or “rate limit exceeded” kinda stuff. Ain’t nobody got time for broken websites!
Now, for the “everything” part. I didn’t want just one type of image. I wanted a whole damn spectrum. I searched APIs for nature, animals, food, cities, abstract art… basically, anything I could think of. The more variety, the better! I added more API calls to my JavaScript, making sure each section of the page had a different “theme.”
Then came the tweaking. The layout looked kinda janky at first. Images were all different sizes, some were blurry, some took forever to load. I played with the CSS, trying to get everything to look at least semi-decent. `object-fit: cover;` became my new best friend. Also added some lazy loading to improve performance. Ain’t nobody got time for slow loading images either!
After a few hours of coding, styling, and curse words muttered under my breath, I had something that resembled a website. It showed a bunch of random images, categorized into different themes. Was it perfect? Hell no. Was it a visual representation of “everything”? Kinda!
Finally, I deployed it. Threw it up on Netlify ’cause that’s just easy. And there it was, live for the world (or at least whoever I shared the link with) to see.
The end result? A slightly chaotic, visually overwhelming, but ultimately kinda charming website that sorta, kinda, maybe captures the spirit of “i love everything about u.” It was fun to build, and that’s what matters, right?
