Twitter Clone

A Twitter clone created with Golang, PostgreSQL, Redis, VueJS and Vite with support for dark mode and light mode using TailwindCSS

Status: Code rewrite in progress

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Preview

For more check out some screenshots here

Features ✨

NOTE: Not all features from twitter are implemented because of how big Twitter is, Only the main features are implemented atm

• Modular Architecture
• Database migration tool using migrate
• Golang Hot-reloading using air
• Supports dark-mode and light-mode with TailwindCSS
• Database seeding script using NodeJS
• Authentication using JWT Refresh token flow and Redis for token blacklisting
• Strongly typed Vuex store
• List Tweets feed
• Create Tweets with images
• Retweets
• Reply to Tweets or reply to another reply!
• Like Tweets
• Follow users
• Images & Media uploads stored in AWS S3 Buckets
• Up to 4 images in a single tweet with the same layout as Twitter
• Crop profile image
• Edit Profile Details
• Edit Profile Image
• See who a user is following and see their followers

Tech 🛠

• Golang
• Fiber HTTP framework
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• NodeJS
• TypeScript
• migrate
• air
• Amazon Web Service S3
• Vue 3
• Vite 2.0
• Vuex 4
• Vue Router 4
• TailwindCSS

How to run locally

Check here on how to run locally

Resources & references used

• https://twitter.com
• https://about.twitter.com/en/who-we-are/brand-toolkit
• https://github.com/shuber/postgres-twitter
• Build a twitter clone using vue.js and tailwind css! (by: this.stephie)
• Is SELECT * Expensive? (by: Hussein Nasser)
• SELECT COUNT (*) can impact your Backend Application Performance, here is why (by: Hussein Nasser)
• Full Text Search PostgreSQL (by: Ben Awad)
• https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20050810133157.GA46247@winnie.fuhr.org
• https://dev.to/shubhadip/vue-3-vuex-4-modules-typescript-2i2o
• https://dev.to/3vilarthas/vuex-typescript-m4j
• Today i learned golang live reload for development using docker compose air (by: Iman Tumorang)

Improvements

• Hashtags and mentions
• Notifications
• Bookmarks
• Lists
• Trending section

Disclaimer

twitter-clone is created for educational purposes only.

I do not work for Twitter nor Twitter the company itself has any associations / involvements in this project.