TLDR
Val Town is a collaborative website to build and scale JavaScript apps.
Deploy APIs, crons, & store data – all from the browser, and deployed in milliseconds.
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The frontend is a React application that provides a clean, user-friendly interface for article summarization.
- Auto-Detection: Automatically detects if input is a URL or text content
- Real-time Feedback: Shows loading states and character counts
- Responsive Design: Works well on desktop and mobile devices
- Error Handling: Clear error messages for various failure scenarios
- Example Content: Quick "Try Example" button for testing
Main application component that handles:
- Form state management
- API communication
- URL/text detection
- Loading and error states
- Results display
- TailwindCSS: Used via CDN for utility-first styling
- Glass Effect: Modern glassmorphism design with backdrop blur
- Gradient Background: Beautiful gradient background
- Animations: Smooth transitions and loading animations
- Input Detection: Automatically detects URLs vs text content
- Visual Feedback: Clear indicators for URL vs text mode
- Loading States: Spinner and descriptive loading messages
- Error Handling: User-friendly error messages
- Results Display: Clean summary presentation with source attribution
Works in all modern browsers that support:
- ES6+ JavaScript
- CSS Grid and Flexbox
- Fetch API
- React 18