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Windows 95 Portfolio

Live Demo: https://yuteoctober.github.io/wins95Portfolio/

React Project:

• Inspired by actual windows 95 and some other idea from windows 95's portfolios
• Everything built by me from scratch (No style component!)

Featured Functionality

• Log in

• Drag and Drop

• Change icon size

• Change background

• Run command

• Live Chat

• Notification

• Calendar

• Mine Sweeper

• Shutting Down

All the functionalities

• Drag and Drop

• Shrink and Expand window

• Start Menu

• Resize window

• Hide and unhide

• One click to highlight

• Double Click to open (also works on mobile using usestate to capture the first touch and counting time within 3ms)

• Introduce Clippy assistant, who always gives you inspiration speeches

• now Clippy has function to show up and give you advices, when you click on certain thing

• Added Shutdown Button

  • Shutdown
  • Restart
  • log out

• Added animation on Shutdown

• Added Log in page

  • Added mario animation running
  • Click on ? button can increase mario's size

• Added MSN

  • Live chat app connected to backend Node, Express and Mongodb (free server is slow sometimes)
  • Chat is live and has expiration key each session to prevent spam
  • Added filter words
  • Added auto delete for spams on the server side

• Added MineSweeper

  • flag can now be placed on desktop

• Added Settings

  • Wallpaper can now be changed
  • Theme will also be changed along with wallpapaer

• Added Run command

  • Created Run command windows 10/04/2024
  • Now Run command is fully functioned
  • Added Error handling when type in the wrong file name

• Added new drag and drop feature

  • now every icon can be drag and drop to any folder
  • fixed bug where dragging out of fold cause other icon to flow in different direction by adding key to its container to rearrange(re-mount) the container
  • icons will now be saved in user localstroage

• Added notification when page loaded

  • display message and running animation

• Added MSN notification

  • Notification will pops up when there is a new message when MSN is hidden or closed

• Now MSN live chat is using websocket instead of API for better performance

  • Added Reconnecting websocket, reconnect chat after user nevigate away and come back

• Added Icon size adjustable on the icon next to the clock on footer

• Added Calender by clicking the time on the footer 10/30/2024

• Added sub folder on start menu imitating real windows 95 functionality 11/06/2024

Library used:

• React Draggable => drag and drop functionality
• Framer-motion => for some animation
• Webamp => Winamp music player (for music app)
• npm i react-calendar => for calender

All the windows 95 icons and others can be found here special thanks to whoever own this web site: https://oldwindowsicons.tumblr.com/tagged/windows%2095