This is a project is a Twitter clone which implements all the basic Twitter features like tweeting, retweeting, liking and following other users. It can also serve at Timeline like where you see all the Tweets from the people you follow. You can discover users by searching for them or seeing their tweets on you Timeline.

The frontend is written in Svelte using svelte-navigator to create a SPA which interfaces with a REST api to fetch all the requiered information.
Authorization is handled with JWTs which are served by the Rust framework Rocket. This can also serves the frontend, but for development the frontend can be run as its own Microservice via Node to enable HMR see Local Developement. The server uses a Redisgraph Database to store all tweets and users. The server interfaces with Redis via the redisgraphio crate which I wrote to enable simple graph queries to access the database.

docker compose up

This will serve the app at localhost:8000

• Docker
• Rust
• cargo
• npm

Run the database:

docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redislabs/redisgraph:latest

Run the rust backend server:

cargo run

Setup the frontend in a new terminal:

cd frontend
npm install

To get HMR run:

npm run dev

This will serve the frontend at localhost:3000 and enable HMR.

If you don't need HMR or want to test the production enviroment behavior build the static html:

npm run build

Now once we run cargo run in the root directory again the Rust server will serve the single page application at localhost:8000 without requireing a node server