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Tacks: a Geo-index based Social Network

This repository only contains frontend. Backend is here: https://github.com/kexu935/Tacks

  • Built a social network website for users to post events (geolocation, image, description) using ReactJs
  • Designed an interactive user interfaces using ReactJS libraries (antd, react-google-map, react-grid-gallery, react-router, etc.)
  • Developed backend web service in Go and deployed to Google Cloud (GAE flex) for better scaling
  • Employed ElasticSearch (deployed on GCE) to provide geolocation-based search functions such that users can search nearby posts within a distance
  • Utilized BigQuery to analyze posts dumped from BigTable by using Cloud Dataflow to understand system work load, user distribution, etc.
  • Improved the keyword-based spam detection by aggregating the data at the post level and user level
  • Implemented authentication using OAuth 2.0 and utilized Redis to improve cache performance

Screenshots

  • Login

  • Register

  • Upload images

  • Gallery of posts

  • Click each post to zoom in

  • Map

  • Zoom out map to get a larger view. Travel and add more tacks to the map!