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Live DEMO: here

This project is made for educational purposes and a lot of stuff could be made a lot simpler. I choose to do it in a more fine grained way to learn.

Technologies and solutions

• React
• MobX (authentication and user store)
• Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Hosting)

Below you can see how I structured my database.

Key functionalities that work

• Sign in with Google
• Submit post of text type
• See recent posts
• Comment on posts
• Vote posts and comments
• Delete comments

What would I do differently

• use tests to minimize manual debugging and specifically regression tests
• use a relational database instead of a non-relational (firestore) for simpler data managment
• for a small app I wouldn't complicate things this much as simpler methods would be sufficient
• use TypeScript as it is statically typed, though I resolved a chunk of debugging difficulties with PropTypes
• use Styled Components instead of JSS because of a bigger community and support