Raven

ln this project our team worked on the following 4 issues :

1. Add 404 page on web app: (#389)

• PR link: https://github.com/The-Commit-Company/Raven/pull/983

• Made minimal and responsive 404 page for desktop and mobile app

• It includes buttons for going back to login screen and channels

• Supports dark and light mode

2. Add preview thumbnails for PDF files: (#154)

• PR link: https://github.com/The-Commit-Company/Raven/pull/984

• Designed a custom UI component for PDF message which includes preview as an image

• Tried to implement async function to get image of 1st page from the pdf with the help pdf2pic library , but it does not works.

3. Ability to pin message(s) in a given channel: (#612)

• PR link: https://github.com/The-Commit-Company/Raven/pull/982

• Updated UI to show Pin/Unpin Button

• Added 2 API's

  - pin_message (Wasn't able to store messages in database)

  - get_pinned_messages (as database is empty, returns nothing)

• Tried designing new UI to show pinned messages in header

4. Handle emoji in social link preview texts: (#803)

• PR link: https://github.com/The-Commit-Company/Raven/pull/985

• Used Beautiful Soup to get preview links by proper html parsing.

• Handled emojis in the title and description of the preview link using the "emoji" library in PyPI.