redditfinance.com

• Framework: Next.js
• DB: Firestore
• Styling: Tailwind
• Deployment: Vercel

About

This is a small website built with Next.js that displays a list of subreddits related to investing and/or finance. A central database of all subreddits might be useful to some people.

Overview

As of today, the list of subreddits has to manually be maintained in types.ts. Users can submit a suggestion to add a subreddit.

• src/* - The Next.js website
• functions/* - This folder is excluded from the Next.js build and contains the Firebase function that scrapes Reddit every 3 hours. We just update the subscriber count for each sub in this cronjob and then re-deploy the Vercel website. The reason we re-deploy the website is because we are not using SSR and instead build a static website at buildtime (SSG). In the future, ISR will be implemented!

Running the website locally

First you'll need a Firebase project and you'll need to populate an .env.local based off of .env.example

$ git clone git@github.com:zachweinberg/redditfinance
$ cd redditfinance
$ npm install
$ cd functions/ && npm install && cd ..
$ npm run dev

Deploying Firebase Functions

firebase deploy --only functions