I built Jason Mendoza Says, comprising of things that Jason Mendoza says from the show, The Good Place. If you do watch it, you'd understand why Jason deserves this.

It was a pretty simple webapp hence, the best project for learning a new language and framework!

Introducing Mint-Lang

mint-lang is where Elm and ReactJS have a baby. I have not particularly used Elm, but I think this flavour of functional programming seems to be kicking up a storm.

It came with all batteries included:

• dev server
• code formatter
• test runner
• package manager
• documentation generator
• build tool
• routing built-in

Introducing the generator

Scraping quotes

I used SimpleScraper to scrape Jason Mendoza quotes from wikiquotes. I ran a python script to filter out only those said by Jason.

Storing quotes

I stored each quote as an endpoint on JSONBase. (LOL JSON sounds like Jason)

Main.mint

I followed this guide to complete the http request to the endpoint.

I added a random sampler as part of the sequence.

next { id = Array.sample(Array.range(1, max)) |> Maybe.withDefault(1) }

I had faced some trouble with getting the correct output from Array.sample as it returns a Maybe instead of a Number. The key was knowing to pipe the result through Maybe.withDefault(1) in order to fallback to a default value.

Next, I just added a button that will load the store on every click.

Thoughts on mint-lang

There's still a lot of the language that I have to learn but I like the static-typing practice. It is also very humbling to learn a new language and adopting a different mindset when coding. This includes having to define the data structure first and setting up defaults.

Very excited to continue to use this language!

Check out my github repo here

Jason Mendoza Says