bmwoodside / fb-clone

facebook clone, maybe?

FB-Clone

UPDATE (2024-08-11): Will keep repo "public" for now as sort of a "where have we come from" view, but this work has not been touched in over 18 months, and there is currently no plan to resume work on this project

Work-in-progress - tons of refactoring happening at the moment... facebook clone, eventually!

Re-designing the back-end -> switching out from MongoDB to MySQL - having to re-architect everything :(

Feel free to follow-along as I continue to learn more new things! (After the refactor, next up will be Sockets.io for live messaging!!) - the project board and issues tracker should both be public, and are being updated constantly as I work on everything.

fb-clone's Issues

Adding comments to userPost is not quite right

• [ ]Need to do some testing and updates here... Without extensively testing I think this is going to just be broken for awhile... it's a little lower on the list than the initial views.

Make "Add Friend" button on "ViewOneUser" Functional

Alternative Registration Features:

• Add ability to login using Google Account
• Other socials login ability?

CSS (ohhhh boy)

yep. time to style all the components

Update User.model with proper validations

• Add BCrypt
• Require session / cookies to view any page

Friends Links in NavRight component are returning undefined (and Linking to Undefined)

Friend info is returned as 'Undefined', and Linkto:user.userFriends._id is linking to host:/undefined.

Possible solution to utilize useMemo to get all user.userFriends on load and then GET request all relevant friend User data (_id, firstname, lastname, etc.) to correctly populate the button/link info.

Make "Like" Button Functional

userPost model: userPostMediaContent type: mixed is undefined

"type: Mixed" in mongoose schema crashes server runtime - "Mixed is undefined".

Look more into schema type information, consider reaching out to Diana or Mike on better ways to handle mongoose schema/document data types.

Make "Comments" functional

This is halfway in-progress... just gotta tie up the loose ends to update post on back-end

Using Sockets: Add "Messenger" (direct messaging) feature

• Use Sockets.io to add messaging between users

(feature request) How to upload and store user files?

How to implement ability for users to upload content from their own devices (i.e. picture, video, etc.) for use in Content of any given post's content

Login Form causes "bad request" errors on submission

Trying to login a registered user via the browser causes a 400 - Bad Request error response from the backend.

Sending the same GET request via postman properly sets the login cookie.

ViewOne Auth Issues

• useEffect call happens prior to useContext information becoming available: how can I check the authorization/authentication on ComponentDidMount (preferably inside useEffect (!user -> redirect to "/")?

(feature req) Have "Forgot Password" send an e-mail with a temporary password

Have "Forgot Password" send you an e-mail which contains a single-use password which forces you to update your password when you try to login with the temp password.

Session/Cookies authorization/authentication

• Implement session or cookie data for handling user login tracking across the application
• Ensure ability for users to only edit and delete their own posts
• force login cookie to view any page in the application (hold user at login/reg until validated)

useEffect on NavMid causes memory leak due to dependency array

useEffect on NavMid causes memory leak due to dependency array.

View-single-user (and view-own-user) content display

• clicking on a single user's username should bring you to a viewOne page
• viewOne page should only show content originating from that user's userID.

Clicking on your name on NavLeft component updates path in address bar but does not render the correct content when attempting to navigate while viewing another user's profile

Clicking on your name on NavLeft component updates path in address bar but does not render the correct content:

• rendered content remains as the "ViewOneUser" view of whichever user you were previously viewing, instead of updating to render the new "ViewOneUser" view of your own profile content.

• This only occurs when viewing another user's profile and then attempting to navigate to your own profile by clicking on your name in the NavLeft column.

• Navigating to Home and then clicking on your name properly renders your own profile data.

Birthdate requirement for user registration breaks DB currently

Plan input ("capturing user info") better so that this includes into the database in the proper manner instead of coming in as garbage.