BetterBook

I've decided I want to learn some new web development tools and work on an Instagram-like website.

Features

It should implement

• Token-based stateless user authentication
• Login page
• Promotional content page
• Profile settings page
• Profile image upload and cropping
• Profile page
• Post creation page
• Post display-on profile page
• Feed page and mobile navbar
• Support for post liking
• Support for post commenting
• Support for post tagging and tagged-in page on profile view-
• Story creation page
• Story panel in feed page and story display page
• Post selection algorithm
• Chat functionality
• Community pages

Architecture

I plan to implement with the following architecture:

• Svelte frontend written in JS
• Rust backend built on axum
• PostgreSQL database interfaced with through Sea-ORM
• Eventual mobile deployment of the frontend with Ionic Capacitor

Setting up a Development Environment