Awty-Portal

A social media app inspired by Twitter.

Functionality

Currently implemented functionality

• None

MVP functionality

• User accounts
• User authentication (with JWT)
• Ability to post
• Search? (maybe)

Eventual functionality

• Searching for posts and profiles
• Following users
• Post likes
• Notification system
• Ability to comment on posts
• Direct messages
• Media uploading (images and videos)
• Reposting (equivalent to retweets)
• Comment likes
• Mobile (via react native) and desktop version (via electronjs)
• tagging functionality (@ and hashtags)
• Recommendation system powered by ML
• "Trending" recommendations
• Livestreaming? There is potential for this but it will require a lot of architectural accomodation.
• Mobile port
• Editing posts/comments
• Changing site theme?
• Profile picture
• Implement ability to fully navigate with keyboard

Tech Stack

DevOps

• Docker
• Docker-Compose
• Bash
• Docker-Swarm if we deploy (potential)

Frontend

• ReactJS
• Redux
• React-Spring
• React-Icons
• React-Boostrap
• React Native (eventually/potential)
• Figma (for UI/UX prototypes)
• Scss
• MomentJS
• Axios
• HTTP-only cookies

Backend

• Go
• Gin
• Sqlx
• MySQL
• JWT auth
• REST
• UUID
• Websocket/SocketIO (when we implement the chat)
• Cookies (for auth; may rearchitect it though)
• RabbitMQ (eventual for notifications, webhooks, etc)

How to run the app

• ./run.sh for linux users
• windows TBD (most people implementing this app on windows will be on WSL so it shouldn't be a problem)