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WhatSharer

WhatSharer is a tool to WhatsApp-text numbers you haven't saved, make shareable WhatsApp messages, generate WhatsApp message URLs and send bulk WhatsApp messages easily.

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The problem WhatSharer solves

All you need to do is enter a message in the message box and it:

  • lets you text the message directly to a WhatsApp number you enter.
  • lets you send the message directly to your contacts on WhatsApp.
  • generates a WhatsApp message URL for the message.
  • generates the HTML code for an embeddable "Share on WhatsApp" banner.

It can be used to easily WhatsApp-text a number you haven't saved too!

Challenges I ran into

I decided to learn ReactJS by building this so I took the time to learn React and code out WhatsAppr as I was learning to. It goes without saying that I faced a ton of problems since I'd never used React before - there were bugs with State and arrow functions. Also, faced some caching issue that didn't let me see applied CSS changes properly.

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