Modest Blog

This is a Next.js template for a twitter-like micro-blogging website.

Demo | Blog Post

Setup

This template is designed to be hosted easily on Vercel and AWS.

1. Go to AWS and log in or create a new account.

2. Create a new IAM role with programmatic access and the permission policies AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess and AmazonS3FullAccess

3. Add the ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY to the environment variables

4. Add your AWS region to the env variables as REGION

5. Head to AWS DynamoDB and create a new database with the Partition key id (String) and a Sort key createdAt (Number) and add the table name as environment variable TABLE_NAME

6. Create a new S3 Bucket on AWS, make it public and enable ACLs.

7. Add the S3 Bucket name as S3_BUCKET to the env variables.

8. Define the variables NEXTAUTH_URL (your domain eg. http://localhost:3000 for local testing) and NEXTAUTH_SECRET - more info about this in the next-auth library.

9. Add your admin account to the env variables with ADMIN_USERNAME=admin and ADMIN_PASSWORD=some-password.

10. Install dependencies with npm i and run the app with npm run dev

11. Use following URL to log into your admin account: http://localhost:3000/api/auth/signin

License

MIT

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created by Vincent Will