Reddish - A Reddit Clone - MERN

Reddit clone (a social media site) made w/ MERN stack & Redux.

Demo

Deployed on Netlify (front-end) & Heroku (back-end)

Built using

Front-end

ReactJS - Frontend framework
Redux w/ useDispatch & useSelector hooks - For state management
Redux Thunk - For asynchronous actions
React Router - For general routing & navigation
Formik - For flexible forms
Material-UI w/ lots of CSS customisations - UI library
Yup - For form validation

Back-end

Node.js - Runtime environment for JS
Express.js - Node.js framework, makes process of building APIs easier & faster
MongoDB - Database to store document-based data
Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling for Node.js
Cloudinary - For image uploading & related API
JSON Web Token - A standard to secure/authenticate HTTP requests
Bcrypt.js - For hashing passwords
Validator.js - For validation of JSON data
Mongoose Unique Validator - Plugin for better error handling of unique fields within Mongoose schema
Dotenv - To load environment variables from a .env file

Features

Authentication (login/register with username-password)
CRUD posts & comments
Add posts in the form of text, link or image
Upvote/downvote posts & comments
Dynamic URLs for users (u/Aman) & subreddits (r/reactjs)
Sorting of posts on basis of algorithms like hot, top, controversial etc.
Full database search feature
Pagination of posts
Error management to prevent app crashes
Sort comments by oldest, newest, most upvoted etc.
Avatar uploading for user profiles
Toast notifications for actions: adding posts, deleting comments etc.
Loading spinners for relevant fetching processes
Dark mode toggle w/ local storage save
Responsive UI for all screens

Screenshots

Desktop/Tablet

Mobile

Usage

Notes:

For image API, make account at cloudinary.com & get API keys from account dashboard.
For upload preset usage, if you want to organize images separately at cloudinary.com, you have to create it from account settings first. If you don't want to, just don't put anything or use .env key - UPLOAD_PRESET.

Env variable:

Create .env file in server directory and add the following:

MONGODB_URI = "Your Mongo URI"
PORT = 3005
SECRET = "Your JWT secret"
CLOUDINARY_NAME = "From your cloudinary dashboard"
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY = "From your cloudinary dashboard"
CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET = "From your cloudinary dashboard"
UPLOAD_PRESET = "Folder/preset name from your cloudinary account" (OPTIONAL)

Client:

Open client/src/backendUrl.js & change "backend" variable to "http://localhost:3005"

cd client
npm install
npm start

Server:

Note: Make sure that you have installed 'nodemon' as global package.

cd server
npm install
npm run dev

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