In this tutorial, we will create a FullStack Twitter Clone that allows users to create and post tweets, follow other users, and like, and view their own profiles and the profiles of other users.
Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, with over 330 million active users as of 2021. If you are interested in building a Twitter-like application, this tutorial will guide you through the process of building a FullStack Twitter Clone using the latest technologies.
Tech Stack
Node.js for our backend code which would be running GraphQL server inside the node.js environment.
GraphQL for our API, which provides a flexible and efficient way to define our data model and query it.
Prisma ORM for our database ORM, which provides a type-safe and easy-to-use interface for interacting with our PostgreSQL database.
PostgreSQL is our database, which is a powerful and reliable relational database system.
Supabase for hosting and managing cloud Postgresql db.
Redis for query caching on the server side and increasing query speeds
Google OAuth for Sign in with Google
JSON WEB TOKENS for authentication
Next.js for our front, which is a popular framework for building React applications with server-side rendering and optimized performance.
TailwindCSS for styling and reusable components.
Codegen for typesafe GraphQL queries and mutations.
Graphql-Request as API client for client-server communication
React-Query for client-side data caching and query caching
Typescript to maintain code quality and write type-safe code.
Amazon Web Services for storage, deployments, and CDN.