README.md

mini-reddit

A basic reddit clone, inspired by Ben Awad's lireddit.

Develop

You'll need Node and Yarn installed You will need PostgreSQL installed and running with a database called 'minireddit' (otherwise edit the name correspondingly in server/src/mikro-orm.config.ts) You will need Redis installed

• run yarn to install dependencies
• from root folder run cd server and yarn watch to start the Typescript complier on watch mode (will compile everytime it detects a change).
• from root folder run cd serverand yarn dev to start development server.
• from root folder run cd client and yarn start to start frontend.
• from any folder in local machine run redis-server to start Redis server.

Backend technologies:

Node.js / Express, in Typescript.

• PostgreSQL: database
• TypeORM: Typescript ORM for connecting to PostgreSQL databases.
• GraphQL.js: Javascript implementation for GraphQL, for building type schemas and serving queries against them (Note: stick to the 15.x version of GraphQL, since v16 contains breaking changes for TypeGraphQL).
• TypeGraphQL: Typescript classes and decorators for defining GraphQL schemas and resolvers.
• Apollo Server: GraphQL server
• class-validator: Validation decorators