Basic Fediverse Reader

A simple reader for reading posts from the fediverse. Built with Fedify, Next.js, React, and Tailwind.

This project is personal learning project on example for a simple next.js app to fetch Fediverse posts with Fedify. I would not consider the code production-ready.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Project Overview

Installation

To install the Basic Fediverse Reader and its dependencies, you need to have Node.js installed. Clone the repository from GitHub and install the required packages using npm:

npm install

This will install both the runtime and development dependencies as specified in the package.json file.

Usage

To use the Basic Fediverse Reader, you can run different scripts provided in the package.json:

• Start the development server:

  npm run dev

• Lint the project:

  npm run lint

Project Overview

Here is a brief overview of important files and folders in the project:

• The React code is mainly in the /app and /components folders.
  • post/[...postUrl] - This is the main page for viewing posts.
  • [fedify]/[[...catchAll]] - Allows this app to run as an ActivityPub sever.
• /util has federation setup, post fetching, utility functions.
• /public has the bulk of the SVGs used.