A place where professionals share their thoughts and ideas regarding the craft they're passionate about.

Demo

• OAuth w/ Google, magic email login, access/refresh token auth flow
• Analytics (read time, views, engagement - likes, comments)
• Reading list (just like YouTube's playlist - save articles)
• Text search
• Extensible editor (supports - paragraph/headings, image, quote, divider)
• Dynamic saving (check what's new/updated/deleted and take action)
• Studio for managing "my" articles
• Fully responsive
• Different rendering patterns (ISR, SSR, SSG, CSR) based on page content
• Design system (Figma)

Environment variables:

Create backend/.env file and then add content of backend/.env.example in it along with missing env variables. Do the same with frontend/.env and frontend/.env.example.

cp ./backend/.env.example ./backend/.env
cp ./frontend/.env.example ./frontend/.env

Starting backend:

Before starting backend make sure to have MongoDB setup and update DATABASE_URL in backend/.env.

cd backend/
pnpm install
pnpm run dev:start

Starting frontend:

cd frontend/
pnpm install
pnpm run dev

Frontend:

• TypeScript, React, Next.js (page router)
• ChakraUI, React Beautiful DnD, Recharts
• React Query, Redux Toolkit, React Hook Form, Zod

Backend:

• TypeScript, Nest.js
• Passport.js, Express File Upload
• Cloudinary
• MongoDB, Mongoose

• Add tests in frontend (Jest, RTL, Playwright) and backend (Jest)
• Add husky
• Dockerize the whole project
• Make editor block rich and add other blocks (code/horizontal-group/list/callout)
• Add notifications system
• Add caching for analytics endpoints

MIT License