Mini Twitter

• Django (fullstack framework)
• Bootstrap (frontend framework)
• Django REST (django api framework)
• jQuery (javascript library)
• ajax (jquery asynchonous function)

Update October 18th

• Finished Views, Models modules of Django framework
• Enabled Create, Update, Retreive and Delete function of tweets
• Base completed

Update October 19th

• Improved Templates module of Django framework by querying Bootstrap
• Enabled Search function of tweets, which is filtering
• framework completed

Update October 20th

• Finished inheritance of template modules
• Adopted REST framework
• Added REST serializers and updated user serializer
• Overwrote Django search/create/update functions with Ajax
• Frontend almost completed

Update October 21st

• Enabled autosearch and showed chars left
• Applied Pagination feature to allow multiple page view and load more
• Added Accounts app to store user profile
• Modified model and views to enable multiple user relation and follow/unfollow toggle
• Applied Django view manager to manage multi-user relations
• User profile completed
• let's stop for a while, have McDonalds and continue at home

Update October 22nd

• Fixed home page to show only following tweets
• Introduced Hashtag feature
• Hashtag completed, still a long way to go

Update October 24th

• Introduced retweet feature
• New feature retweet completed

Update October 26th

• Added function to receive and add hashtags into database
• Introduced like/unlike feature
• Like unlike feature completed

Update October 28th

• Introduced Reply feature
• Improved search function to display relevant tweets and their replies
• Introduced Recommendation feature
• Added Login/Logout/Register pages
• Completed!!

Some notes

• Diff between serializer and models: model defines which data to store in backend database; serializer defines which data to grab from backend; ajax read from api serializer and render data into pages