Microblog

Microblog is a full stack app where users can create/edit/delete posts, create/delete comments on those posts, and vote up/down on the posts as well. It uses React, Redux, and Redux-Thunk on the frontend, and Node/Express and PostgreSQL on the backend.

See a live demo at https://microblog.demo.davidcsommers.dev/

To Run This Repo Locally:

Prerequisites

1. Install Node.js and npm
2. Install PostgreSQL

Setup

1. Git clone this repo and cd into it

Backend

1. cd backend
2. psql < data.sql (creates microblog db and seeds a little data)
3. npm install
4. npm start or nodemon

Frontend

1. cd frontend (from base project directory)
2. npm install
3. npm start

Tech Stack

Backend

1. Node - Server Runtime Environment
2. Express - Node Web App Framework
3. PostgreSQL - Relational Database

Frontend

1. React - FE JS Framework
2. React-Router - Library to create single page app
3. React-Redux - State management library
4. Redux-Thunk - Redux middleware to allow async action creators
5. React-Bootstrap - Bootstrap components as React components
6. React-Flip-Toolkit - Animation library for reordering list components
7. axios - http client

Contributors

https://github.com/neecholai

Rithm Staff

Note: This was a pair project at Rithm bootcamp, focused on building the frontend with React/Redux. The frontend was entirely built by Nicholai and myself (I came back afterwards and tweaked it). The backend is kindly provided by Rithm staff.