Twitter Copy cat

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. It uses a PostgreSQL database and an express server.

It is a basic Twitter copycat.

• You can register/login
• Create a tweet
• Like/dislike a tweet
• Follow/Unfollow someone
• Leave a comment on a tweet

Dependencies

• Front End axios: 0.19.2 react: 16.13.1 react-dom: 16.13.1 react-scripts: 3.4.1
• Back end bcrypt: 5.0.0 body-parser: 1.19.0 cookie-session: 1.4.0 dotenv: 8.2.0 express: 4.17.1 pg: 8.3.0

Getting Started

• Clone and install all the required dependencies using npm install on the following repo:

  • Back end API
  • Front end

• Copy the .env.example file with your own psql db information

• Create the database tables \i db/schema/01_tweet_schema.sql

• Seed the database using \i db/seeds/01_tweet_seeds.sql

• Run the server with npm start, then the front end with npm start

Current functionalities

• A user can register/login and logout.
• A user can create a new tweet
• A user can like/dislike a tweet
• A user can follow/unfollow another user
• A user can comment on another tweet

Further development

• Using Breadth-first Search to display relations degree between users.
• Building a feed algorithm that would take into account who you follow and what tweets you have liked
• Creating the bases of a Neural Language Processing algorithm to categorize tweets and help for the feed algorithm

Screenshot