Reaction Forum

Reaction Forum is a web forum with support for RSS subscriptions. It is built with the MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) stack, and aimed to have features:

Support for RSS subscriptions
- Automatically adding posts from subscribed RSS sources in sub-forums
Support for Markdown rendering in posts
Mobile-friendly responsive UI design

Deployment

https://reaction-forum.herokuapp.com/

Installation

npm install

It will install all the required node_modules and build the client.

If you are using npm of a very old version and the build is not triggered, you may need to manually run the script:

npm run postinstall

Usage

npm start

Built With

React
Redux (redux-thunk, redux-persist) - Managing application states
Semantic UI
react-markdown - Rendering posts written in Markdown format

MongoDB, Mongoose - Database
Express - Backend server
Firebase - Storage for uploaded image files
Passport - User registration and authentication
node-cron - Fetching from subscribed RSS sources on a set schedule

License