Bredit

This is a Reddit clone built using Next.js 13, Firebase, Chakra UI and some other cool tools.

Preview deployed on Vercel, check out the current version: https://next-bredit.vercel.app

(Add credits to freeCodeCamp.org and Shadee Merhi here.)

Features Implemented

• User authentication using Firebase (email and password, or using Google account)
• Community and user data stored in Firestore database
• Community page SSR
• Responsive UI
• Global app state using Recoil
• Markdown in posts
• Voting on posts
• Comments

Frameworks and Libraries Used

• Next.js
• Chakra UI
• Chakra UI Icons
• react-icons: Icons list
• Recoil – state management.
• Firebase
  • react-firebase-hooks
• safe-json-stringify - a wrapper for JSON.stringify that handles circular references and prevents defined getters from throwing errors.
• Moment.js - date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
• react-markdown - Markdown component for React.
  • remark-gfm - remark plugin to support GFM (autolink literals, footnotes, strikethrough, tables, tasklists).

Tools

• vscode-react-javascript-snippets – Extension for React/Javascript snippets with search supporting ES7+ and babel features.

References, Notes, Docs

• Next.js
  • Layouts
  • getServerSideProps
• React
  • React: Type {children: Element} has no properties in common with type IntrinsicAttributes
  • UseEffect Reference
• Firebase
  • Ordering
  • Pagination
  • Count results
• Chakra UI
  • Customizing theme tokens
  • Using fonts
  • Add elements inside Input
  • Modal
  • How to make custom sized modal in chakra UI (or just use <Modal size="xl">)
  • Menu
  • Fixed Navbar using Chakra UI
• react-markdown
  • React Markdown: A Thorough Guide With Markdown Examples

Getting Started

Configuration

Create Firebase project for the app. Then, create .env.local and put the following variables with corresponding values there:

NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_API_KEY
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_STORAGE_BUCKET
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID
NEXT_PUBLIC_FIREBASE_APP_ID

Running the App

First, run the development server:

npm run dev
# or
yarn dev
# or
pnpm dev

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Learn More

To learn more about Next.js, take a look at the following resources:

• Next.js Documentation - learn about Next.js features and API.
• Learn Next.js - an interactive Next.js tutorial.

You can check out the Next.js GitHub repository - your feedback and contributions are welcome!

Deploy on Vercel

The easiest way to deploy your Next.js app is to use the Vercel Platform from the creators of Next.js.

Check out our Next.js deployment documentation for more details.