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About The Project

A React frontend and Cloudflare workers backend application offering features that replicate Medium, the popular blogging platform.

Features:

• Token based Authentication
• Create, Read, Update, Delete Blogs
• Bookmark, Like, Search, Filter Blogs
• Generate Blog using AI
• Autosave
• User profiles
• Subscriber

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Technologies & Libraries

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Project Structure

• Backend: Contains server-side code and logic.
• Common: Shared assets and modules used by frontend and backend. (NPM Library)
• Frontend: Contains client-side code and logic.

Local Setup

Backend

• Navigate into the backend directory

cd backend

• Create a copy of .env.example and name the file .env
• Set up Postgres DATABASE_URL in .env file. You can get a free PostgreSQL connection string from Aiven.io.
• Set up Prisma connection pool DATABASE_URL in wrangler.toml file. You can get this for free from Prisma.
• Set up JWT Secret JWT_SECRET in wrangler.toml file. This can be any value.
• Install dependencies using

npm install

• DB Migration (This will create the DB Schema)

npm run prisma:migrate

• DB Seeding - optional (Check package.json for details)
• Generate Prisma client

npx prisma generate

• Run the application locally using

npm run dev

Note: wrangler.toml is the environment configuration file for a serverless backend. .env is used by Prisma for connection pooling. Ensure you configure both environment files accordingly.

Frontend

• Navigate into the frontend directory using

cd frontend

• Install dependencies using

npm install

• Run the application locally using

npm run dev

Note: frontend/src/config.ts contains BACKEND_URL. If you need your frontend to point to local backend server, uncomment export const BACKEND_URL = "http://localhost:8787".

AI based Article content generation

• set FF_ENABLE_AI = true in config.ts
• set OPENAI_API_KEY in wrangler.toml file in the backend.
• The feature is enabled only when title is atleast 10 characters long.

Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! To contribute, follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/[feature-title]).
3. Make your changes and commit them (git commit -am 'Add brief meaningful commit message').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/[feature-title]).
5. Create a new Pull Request.

For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Read our contribution guidelines for more details.

🤝 Contributors

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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Contact

Aadesh Kulkarni - [email protected]

Project Link: https://github.com/aadeshkulkarni/medium-app

Discord: https://discord.gg/TmRYQhca

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