theo0165 / duckpond

A Reddit/Hacker News clone written in Laravel

Duckpond

Simple Reddit clone written in Laravel 9. Demo screenshots available here.

Built by

• Theo Sandell
• Patrik Staaf

Install guide

1. Clone the repository

   •   git clone https://github.com/theo0165/duckpond
     
       cd duckpond

2. Create .env file

   •   cp .env.example .env

3. Update .env with your own values.

4. Install dependencies for php and node.js

   •   npm install
       composer install

5. Generate application key

   •   php artisan key:generate

6. Run migrations and populate database for testing

   •   php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

   • This will take up to 30 seconds

7. Start dev servers

   •   npm run dev
       php artisan serve

8. Visit the website on http://localhost:8000

Code Review

Code review written by Christopher, Oliver & Sophie.

1. No installation guide (during time of code review)
2. CreateReplayController :15 : $data as a variable name could be more specific.
3. ShowUserController :12 : is this comment supposed to be there?
4. GuestTest :328 : This test is in a comment, can be deleted since it’s not being used.
5. In the table comments there is a column named parent_id, maybe specify more.
6. All tests “includes” the faker class but it is never used.
7. Most of the controllers have unused request classes.
8. Comment on what q would be in search controller.
9. A lot of files have the “boiler” code left.
10. The code could benefit a lot from comments explaining more specific variables.
11. DeleteCommentController.php:16 has commented dd left in code
12. ShowPostController.php:13 do not use $request
13. [minor]Controller/submit breaks structure with small letters
14. StoreSubmitController.php:25 has commented dd left in code
15. ShowUserProfileController.php:12 commented code left in prod
16. UserFollowCommunityController.php $checkIfFollow-naming. Check if whats follow what?
17. Maybe pagination on front page?
18. Models/Comment.php:52 has some commented code
19. Models/Post.php:25 has some commented code
20. Good use of built in functions etc.
21. Very good html structure.
22. Good grouping of routes.
23. Overall a very well made project, especially considered the time frame ⭐️

Tables/Models

• User
  • Email
  • Username
  • Password
  • Is admin?
• Post
  • Title
  • Value
  • Type
    • Text/link
  • User id
• Community
  • Title
  • Owner (user id)
• Vote
  • Post id
  • Comment id
  • User id
  • Up/down (true/false)
• Comment
  • User id
  • Text
  • Post id -> post
  • Parent id -> comment
• Post on community
  • User id
  • Post id
  • Commnunity id

Relationships

• User

  • Has Many
    • Posts
    • Comment
    • Community

• Post

  • Has Many
    • Comments
  • Belongs to
    • User
    • Community

• Community

  • Has many
    • Posts
  • Belongs to
    • User

• Comment

  • Has many
    • Comments
  • Belongs to
    • Post/comment
    • User

• Vote

  • Belongs to
    • Post/Comment

Features

• Users
  • Admin (?)
    • Can delete posts
  • Profile page, public
    • Posts
    • Comments (?)
    • Settings for own user.
      • Update
        • Password
        • Email
• "Communties"
  • Can visited seperate from front page
    • Can only see posts from that community
  • User can delete
  • Posts
    • Text/link
    • Upvote/Downvote
    • Comment
      • Upvote/downvote
      • Delete
    • Delete
  • User can create
  • User can follow
    • Posts from followed communties on front page
• Front page
  • Sort by most upvoted last 24hr
• Search
  • Communities
  • User
  • Post (?)
• Sort by controversial
  • Many upvotes and downvotes

Deliminations

• No mods on communties
  • Only super user

duckpond's Issues

Demo/Screenshots

Hi,

thank you for creating this code...
Can you please attach a few demo screenshots or a working url?

Thank you