/Twitter_backend

backend endpoint for with Prisma1 + Graphql

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Twitter Clone - Backend

Built with Prisma + GraphQL If you are looking for the frontend repo, it lives here frontend

The Stack

Backend

  1. Prisma - provides data modelling and a nice set of CRUD APIs to work with
  2. GraphQLServer - graphql-yoga
  3. Authentication - JWT
  4. Image upload - Cloudinary

Frontend

  1. Frontend - Our beloved React
  2. State Management - ApolloClient (requests, updating UI, caching)
  3. Styling - Styled Components
  4. Routing - React Router
  5. Notifications - React Toastify
  6. Popups- Reactjs popup

You can do these things

  • Login / Signup
  • New Tweet
  • Like
  • Retweet
  • Comment
  • View Profile
  • Edit Profile
  • Search by users, tags, people
  • Toggle between light and dark mode
  • Cycle through five different accent colors

How to setup locally

  • You need to have a prisma account

  • Make sure to install the prisma globally in your machine

     npm i -g prisma

 # once you created your account, you can login from the terminal
 prisma login

  • Then have a look at this video if prisma sounds new to you.

Everything Is AWESOME

Deploying the backend to heroku

First create an heroku account and install the heroku cli globally and login

npm i -g heroku
heroku login

Once logged in, create a new heroku application and push it to the remote 'heroku'

heroku create
git push heroku master

Then we need to manually setup the environmental variables using the heroku dashboard

Look at the UI

Dark Mode

Dark

Light Mode

Light

Mobile Layout

Mobile

TODO

  • Real-time notifications using GraphQL subscriptions
  • Bookmark tweeets
  • Show retweets on user profile
  • Show trending tags
  • Better mobile support
  • Add OLED theme