refire-forum

Serverless discussion forum built with React, Redux and Firebase using refire and refire-app.

I challenged myself to build as good forum as possible in 37.5 hours (normal work week hours, but split over multiple weekends and nights in this case), version 1.0 is the result.

Base UI components are from excellent Elemental UI.

Live demo

https://refire.firebaseapp.com

Features

Categories, boards and threads
Paging for boards and threads
Quoting when replying to posts
Thread and Post previews
Markdown support 👍
Emoji support 🔥
User profile pages
Login with Google account
Admin tools (delete threads & single posts, lock/unlock threads)

Deploying your own instance

Create your new app in Firebase dashboard
Copy and paste apiKey from your Firebase app console's Overview > Add Firebase to your web app to src/config.js
Enable Google Authentication in your Firebase app console's Auth > Sign-in method settings
Change projects.default value to your app name in .firebaserc
Run npm install and npm run build
Run npm run login to login to Firebase
Run npm run bootstrap to copy the initial data structure to Firebase
Run npm run deploy to deploy the app and security rules to Firebase

Running locally

npm start will start the development server on localhost:4000

Adding admin users

Create adminUsers path in your Firebase and set your admin user's uid as key and true as value:

"adminUsers": {
  "google:123456789": true
}

Customizing settings

You can edit default paging settings by changing settings/BOARD_PAGE_SIZE, settings/THREAD_PAGE_SIZE and settings/THREAD_PAGE_LIMIT.

You can configure date format by changing settings/DATE_FORMAT.

License

MIT

khoatranthanh / refire-forum