TWRRR

Twr is a Twitter clone with not so much functionality. The idea of this project was to gain and showcase skills using Redux Toolkit and MaterialUI

Key Features

• Dark Mode
• Friends List
• Auth/Auth
• Easy integration
• Fully Responsive

A Quick Look

Installation

Follow these steps to install and set up Twrrr on your local machine:

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jbxamora/twrrr.git .

Install Dependencies:

npm i or npm install

Move into Server directory:

cd server

Create dotenv file:

MONGO_URL="yourmongodburl" PORT=3001 JWT_SECRET="somesuperdupersecret"

Start Server:

nodemon index.js

Seed Data To Your Database:

uncomment the following lines in index.js // User.insertMany(users) // Post.insertMany(posts)

Switch to client directory

Run on your local machine:

npm run dev

Happy Hacking!

Heres The Data Model

Redux Persist

Here's an example of setting up a Redux store with Redux Persist to save and rehydrate the application state:

const persistConfig = {
  key: "root",
  version: 1,
  storage,
};
 
const persistedReducer = persistReducer(persistConfig, authReducer);
 
const store = configureStore({
  reducer: persistedReducer,
  middleware: (getDefaultMiddleware) =>
    getDefaultMiddleware({
      serializableCheck: {
        ignoredActions: [FLUSH, REHYDRATE, PAUSE, PERSIST, PURGE, REGISTER],
      },
    }),
});

This configuration sets up Redux Persist with the authReducer and specifies a list of actions to ignore during the serializable check in the middleware configuration.

JWT

The following is an example of a middleware function to verify a JWT token in an Express.js server:

export const verifyToken = async (req, res, next) => {
  try {
    let token = req.header("Authorization");
 
    if (!token) return res.status(403).send("Access Denied");
 
    if (token.startsWith("Bearer ")) {
      token = token.slice(7, token.length).trimLeft();
    }
 
    const verified = jwt.verify(token, process.env.JWT_SECRET);
    req.user = verified;
    next();
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(500).json({ error: err.message });
  }
};

This function takes the incoming request, checks for the presence of an "Authorization" header, and verifies the token using the JWT secret. If the token is valid, it adds the verified user to the req object and proceeds to the next middleware or route handler.