A small, twitter-like toy application using the MERN stack, where you can post, like or dislike a hot take (since we don't have enough places like this on the internet).
It has been deployed here. *
* on a free render instance, which takes ~30 seconds to spin up
- React
- Redux with Redux Toolkit
- Tailwind CSS
- React Router
- Node.js and Express for building the REST API.
- MongoDB Database to store user information and posts ("takes").
- Jest for backend unit tests.
If you'd like to run this locally, you have to install the required dependencies with npm install in both the hottake-backend and the hottake-frontend directory.
You'd also have to fire up a mongodb instance, and add a .env file in the root of the hottake-backend directory:
PORT= # The port number to use
MONGODB_URI= # The URI for your main mongodb instance
TEST_MONGODB_URI= # The URI for your test mongodb instance
SECRET= # a secret phrase needed for the JWT signature
You can either build the ui from the backend directory with npm run build:ui then start the server with npm start, or run both the back- and frontend with npm run dev, so you're changes will be reflected in real-time.
- User Registration and Authentication using JSON webtokens
- Adding posts ("Takes")
- Liking and Disliking Posts
- Replying to Posts (which hasn't been implemented on the frontend yet, but it's possible trough the api)
Running npm run test in the hottake-backend folder should run all the unit tests.
The Database is running in MongoDB Atlas, while the application itself is hosted on Render (deployed from this repository).
The typeface used in the Header of the application is the beautiful Surreal Psychedelic Typeface.