Code a Reddit Clone with React, Next.js, Firebase v9, Chakra UI – Full Course

By freeCodeCamp.org
Published: Jan 25, 2023

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Learn to build a Reddit clone from scratch using React, Firebase, Next.js, Chakra UI, and TypeScript. The application features authentication, Firestore database, cloud functions, security rules, Transactions, deployment, and more.

This course was created by @shadmerhi.

Code: https://github.com/shadeemerhi/reddit-clone-yt

Contents
• (0:00:00) Intro & Project Demo
• (0:08:25) Begin Project (Preface, Create Next App, Next.js fundamental concepts: pages and client-side routing)
• (0:11:26) Core package installations (Chakra-React, Firebase, Recoil) and & ChakraProvider setup & Quick Note on React 18 (w/ Chakra)
• (0:14:12) Create Chakra Theme (theme setup & explanation and global styling)
• (0:19:28) React TypeScript Intro & Next.js Layout Component
• (0:22:40) Begin Navbar (Navbar in Layout Component, component folder structure debrief)
• (0:24:30) Navbar Logos & Chakra UI Styling Fundamentals (flexbox, component styling, responsive design w/ media queries)
• (0:29:56) SearchInput Component
• (0:36:37) Authentication buttons & Chakra UI global component styling explanation
• (0:44:59) Authentication Modal Intro (Chakra UI modal skeleton)
• (0:47:23) Recoil Setup & Intro, Recoil Atoms with TypeScript, Auth Modal w/ global Recoil State
• (0:57:44) Authentication Modal Content (Login & Sign Up forms, React form state, React events w/ TypeScript)
• (1:18:57) OAuth Buttons (Sign In w/ Google, Facebook, Github, etc.)
• (1:23:49) Firebase Setup (Create new Firebase Project, Client SDK’s)
• (1:30:31) User Creation (react-firebase-hooks, useCreateUser firebase hook)
• (1:40:22) Firebase Error Handling (TypeScript indexing, custom error messages)
• (1:46:13) Google Authentication (useSignInWithGoogle hook)
• (1:51:28) Sign in Existing users (useSignInWithEmailAnPassword firebase hook)
• (1:56:45) useAuthState firebase hook (currently signed-in user, modify navbar UI for authenticated user)
• (2:03:54) Reset Passwords (useSendPasswordResetEmail firebase hook)
• (2:09:04) Navbar Icons (react-icons)
• (2:16:47) User Dropdown Menu (Chakra Menu component)
• (2:26:54) User Karma (custom user properties)
• (2:28:55) Community Directory in Navbar (create community intro)
• (2:38:09) Create Community Modal 1: Skeleton
• (2:44:34) Create Community Modal 2: Body (input, character count, community type list)
• (3:01:20) Create Communities & Cloud Firestore Database
• (3:17:37) Joining Communities 1 (User communities, SQL vs. NoSQL Data Modelling)
• (3:27:31) Cloud Functions (firebase-admin, Authentication, Adding Custom User Properties)
• (3:38:43) Cloud Functions Alternative for Custom User Properties, optional
• (3:43:46) Joining Communities 2 (Firestore Transactions and Sub-Collections)
• (3:50:12) Community Page (Server-side Rendering w/ NextJS, data fetching w/ getServerSideProps)
• (4:01:44) Community Not Found component
• (4:04:36) Community Page Header component
• (4:14:30) Custom PageContent Layout component (React children)
• (4:25:20) Community Data Recoil Atom (global communities state)
• (4:30:29) useCommunityData Custom Hook (Creating Custom Hooks in React)
• (4:39:35) Fetch User Community Snippets (getMyCommunities function)
• (4:50:59) Join & Leave Communities (Firestore Database Batched Writes)
• (5:04:26) Create Post Page & CreatePostLink Component
• (5:08:17) NewPostForm 1: FormTabsComponent (Multi-step React forms)
• (5:20:36) NewPostForm 2: PostTextInputs (Post Title & Body)
• (5:31:50) NewPostForm 3: ImageUpload Component
• (5:49:13) handleCreatePost Function (Save Posts to Firestore, Upload Image to Firebase Storage)
• (6:07:45) Fetch All Posts in Community (usePosts custom hook, Firestore queries)
• (6:17:56) PostItem Component
• (6:38:07) PostLoader Component (Chakra UI Skeletons)
• (6:43:17) Deleting Posts (handleDelete function, TypeScript promises)
• (6:54:23) About Community Component (currentCommunity recoil state)
• (7:10:19) Customize Community Image (useSelectFile custom react hook, Admin/Moderator permissions)
• (7:30:24) Voting on Posts (user postVotes collection batched writes)
• (8:11:30) Single Post Page (Next.js Dynamic [pid] route, event propagation)
• (8:29:25) Single Post Link Sharing (refresh dilemma, fetchPost fallback function)
• (8:35:09) Community Data Refresh Dilemma (getCommunityData fallback function)
• (8:43:49) Commenting on Posts (comment collection data modelling)
• (9:08:46) CommentItem Component
• (9:29:41) Deleting Comments
• (9:37:25) Community Navigation Dropdown (communityDirectory recoil atom)
• (9:55:31) useDirectory custom react hook
• (10:14:15) Home Page (Governing logic)
• (10:21:48) Home Feed for Logged-Out Users
• (10:38:11) Home Feed for Logged-In Users
• (10:54:20) Post Votes for Feed Posts
• (11:00:01) Top Communities Component (and supporting components)
• (11:20:34) Deployment with Vercel
• (11:32:06) Firebase Security Rules
• (11:41:48) Project Completion & Outro

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