Phoenix-Twitter
A small twitter clone created with Elixir and Phoenix Framework that has the following features:
- Signup and login a user
- Update user settings
- Upload profile picture
- Post tweet (can include user mentions and hashtags)
- Post retweets
- Favorite tweet
- Follow other users
- Clickable user mention links
- Clickable hashtags to view all tweets with that hashtag
There are some Postgres spcific SQL commands since there is no union functionality in Ecto. The CSS is done with SASS and bootstrap-sass with the addition of Font Awesome.
Installation
From the phoenix-twitter root directory, execute the following:
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo -u postgres createdb phoenix_twitter_dev
sudo -u postgres psql -c "ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD 'postgres';"
sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
nvm install 8.9
mix deps.get
mix ecto.create
mix ecto.migrate
npm install
mix phoenix.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.
Installation on Windows
install Elixir
type 'cmd' in start menu, in the command prompt, type
mix local.hex
to install hex
download postgresql
open pgAdmin 4, login 'PostgreSQL 10' using the possword we set in the instal part create database 'phoenix_twitter_dev'
download node.js
open 'cmd' command prompt in administrtor mode, head to the TwitterClone folder
mix deps.get
npm install -g windows-build-tools
Restart computer, open Visula Studio 2015 build tools command prompt, head to TwitterClone folder
mix ecto.create
mix ecto.migrate
npm install
mix phoenix.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.
License
GPL Version 3.