The problem react-link-preview solves

This package provides link previews for your links, which is essential for many projects. I noticed that there were no packages that provided this functionality, and the ones that did were not properly maintained.

Challenges I ran into

I had to figure out a way to go around the CORS issues popping up. This was because my package had to make requests to websites from inside the browser. To solve this, I created a proxy on Heroku and shared the code on my Github so that people can fork it & host their own proxies for production.