Fakebook, a faithful Facebook clone, is a social networking site to connect users with their friends. It makes use of a Rails/PostgreSQL backend with React.js and Redux on the frontend.
The project was designed and built within a two-week timeframe, though I plan to continue adding improvements over time.
- Secure frontend to backend user authentication using BCrypt
- Users can create and edit posts on their wall or to other users
- News feed shows users an aggregated view of their friend's activity
- Profile pages contain relevant posts and allow users to upload profile and cover pictures
- Users can friend other users to see that user's activity on their news feed
- Search allows users to quickly find people they may know
To maintain DRY code, the posts container, including the post form and post index, was used on both the user's news feed and profile. Each page requires a different filtered view of posts. I utilized route information to dictate how the controller would return filtered posts.
componentDidMount() {
if (this.props.match.params.userId) {
this.props.fetchPosts(this.props.match.params.userId);
} else {
this.props.fetchPosts();
}
} 
While user search was not a MVP, I believe it is a core feature in Fakebook to find and connect with others. Searching fired an Ajax request on input change that used a SQL wildcard search to return a list of users.
Fakebook was designed to closely mimic the functionality and look and feel of Facebook. With a two-week time period in mind, I prioritized implementing the core set of features.
On the backend, I used Rails for its RESTful architecture and built in relational databases. Redux was used on the frontend to maintain seperate slice of reducers and actions for users, posts, and comments.
- [Proposal Wireframes] (https://github.com/trwong/fakebook/wiki/Wireframes)
- [API Endpoints] (https://github.com/trwong/fakebook/wiki/Routes)
- [Database Schema] (https://github.com/trwong/fakebook/wiki/Database-Schema)
- Notifications
- People you may know
- Messaging