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Reddit Clone

Description

[App] Creating a near identical clone of the famous social media website, Reddit

See it live on optimistictrousers.github.io/reddit-clone Or clone repo, cd into repo, then run "npm run start"

Purpose

Creating a full-stack webapp with React.js and Firebase, with multiple routes. Using Typescript and Redux.

Beyond that, other learning outcomes were:

  • Design reusable components
  • Creating and deleting data inside of a Firebase Firestore database
  • Allowing the user to authenticate to interact with the application
  • Creating custom hooks
  • Using Redux for state management
  • Typescript for types
  • Using moment.js for Date utilities

Features

  1. Allows users to authenticate
  2. Allows users to create subreddits
  3. Allows users to create posts
  4. Allows users to filter through posts
  5. Allows users to upvote posts and comments
  6. Allows users to reply to comments
  7. Allows users to search for subreddits
  8. Responsive
  9. Subreddit moderators
  10. Subreddit editing
  11. Image upload
  12. User can join subreddits

Development

Javascript Framework

Technologies used

typescript jest

Areas for Improvement

  1. Karma
  2. Allow users to change profile pictures
  3. Adding more levels
  4. Give the user back their time in seconds with demicals instead of seconds
  5. Light mode
  6. Trending posts
  7. Awards
  8. Coins
  9. Pagination and lazy loading
  10. Allow users to filter their content inside their profile
  11. Allow users to search for posts within subreddits
  12. Pinning posts in a subreddit

Known Bugs

  1. Status of "Saved" posts only appears on the post page itself, not when rendered as a post inside of a list of posts

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