aj-rom / twitter-clone

Javascript, CSS, HTML frontend with a Rails backend API to replicate a very basic twitter like application.

Twitter Clone

Just a basic twitter clone running on a Rails backend server using javascript fetch requests to manipulate and show data.

Getting Started

Production Environment

Test out the production environment by simply heading to the github pages site for this repo.

You can navigate their easily by clicking here

Local Environment

1. Clone this repository
2. Open your command line interface and move into our new directory:
   1. > cd twitter-clone
3. Start up the backend server.
   1. > cd backend - To move into our backend application directory.
   2. > bundle install - To install necessary gems.
   3. > rails db:setup - To setup and seed our database.
   4. > rails start or > rails s - Starts the Rails backend server.
4. Go ahead and navigate to the frontend directory
5. Change the BACKEND_URL to http://localhost:3000 in the index.js file.
6. Open up index.html
7. Start interacting with the site!

How This Is Different

• There is no user authentication and is only submitted via form data on the frontend

  • Thus no profile views are made and soley can view posts with related comments
  • Users cannot perform Update and Delete actions on their posts/comments

• Functionality on this site is limited soley to the C & R of CRUD operations.

  • With the exception of U (Update) when they like a certain post.

License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT License, feel free to do what you like with it.