Episodic is a full-stack web application inspired by Medium. It utilizes Ruby on Rails on the backend, a PostgreSQL database, and React.js with a Flux architectural framework on the frontend. Episodic was built as a single-page application.
- Account creation
- Create and Edit Stories with rich inline text-editor
- Follow other users
- Like stories
- Comment on stories
- User Profile
- keep tracks of stories, comments, and likes.
- manage followings and followers
- Feed page
Since user can access majority of Episodic's content without being logged-in, buttons were isolated as it's own component. The button component will decide how it will render based on current log-in status (SessionStore#isUserLoggedIn). Buttons such as the Follow button will also check if current user is following the viewed user.
render () {
let followButton;
if (SessionStore.isUserLoggedIn()) {
if (this.props.isFollowing) {
followButton = (
<button className="following-button" onClick={this.handleUnfollow}> Following </button>
);
} else {
followButton = (
<button className="follow-button" onClick={this.handleFollow}> Follow </button>
);
}
} else {
followButton = (
<div className="follow-button-special">
<SessionButton name={"Follow"} />
</div>
);
}
return (
<div className="user-view-following-status">
{followButton}
</div>
);
}In addition to the features already implemented, I plan to continue work on this project. The next steps for Episodic are outlined below.
- Sign up/Log with twitter or FB
- Richer story creation and editing with MediumEditor image add-on
- Tag stories with multiple tags and search stories by tag
- Bookmark stories
- Pagination / infinite scroll
- Receive notifications when people/pubs you follow post new content
- Allow highlights, denote top highlighted sections