DevSays

What is DevSays

DevSays is a simple open-source social network for developers. It provides a simple, but powerful interface for efficient code sharing and refactoring. If you have searched for a place to share code or minds, make requests for code changing, and just hanging out, it's for you.

Features

Authentication. The application can be accessed via email or using popular services (Google, GitHub). If needed, the password can be reset after credentials confirmation.
Profile. It holds general information about user, activity statistic, posts, which were made by a user or shared, and comments for those.
Code. Snippets with code can be injected directly into posts or comments and executed right here.
Suggestions. With comments tree structure it becomes easy to make suggestions for code changing.
Reactions. Every post and comment can be liked or disliked.
Subscriptions. Follow users or tags to get notifications about its activity.
Bookmarks. Save posts without placing them on your profile.
Settings. Change public information, customize profile appearance.
Feed. Get posts depending on your subscriptions and preferences.
Search. Find users, posts, or tags using a handy search bar.

Main functionality

Post

Has a cell structure similar to Google Colab with 2 cell types:
- MarkDown
- Code. With this section user can:
  - choose language and compiler, interpreter version
  - directly execute code with the Run Code option (the author can explicitly connect cells to execute all of them sequentially at once)
  - use all syntax highlighting functionality
Supports additional tags like node, backend
Can be public or private (accessible only via link)
Provides special API for code sharing via GitHub
Is stored in JSON format. Example:

{
    "cells": [
        {
            "type": "markdown",
            "source": "Everything about Python"
        },
        {
            "type": "code",
            "language": "python",
            "version": "3.9.2",
            "source": [
                "comment = 'I am so slow!'",
                "print(comment)"
            ],
            "output": [
                {
                    "data": {
                        "text/html": [
                            "I am so slow!"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Comment

Form a tree structure. Users can create topic threads by simply replying to someone's else comment
Are powerful because of the text, code suggestion feature. Everyone, who leaves a comment can easily execute code with suggested changes. The author, in turn, can apply all of them in one click.
Inherit post, however, they are restricted with image, video usage, and content length

Technologies

Backend - Node.js
Frontend - React.js
Database - PostgreSQL
CI/CD - Docker, GitHub actions
Auth - JWT, OAuth 2.0
Other - Nginx, docker-compose