What is Alar?

Alar is a full-stack web application created as a pet project. It's an attempt to combine GitHub and Reddit, like "Reddit for programmers."

✨ Features

✅ Implemented

• (00e9) Authentication System - Secure JWT-based auth
• (cf0c) Posts - Create, read, and engage with content
• (cf0c) Comments - Nested discussions on posts

🚧 In Progress

• User Profiles - Personalized profile pages
• Notifications - Real-time updates and alerts
• Search - Advanced content discovery
• Question Posts - StackOverflow-style Q&A
• Code Snippets - GitHub Gists-like code sharing
• Dockerization - Containerized deployment
• Production Deployment - Cloud deployment setup

Tech stack

Frontend

• TypeScript - Strongly typed programming language
• SvelteKit - Lightweight framework for building modern web apps
• SCSS - CSS preprocessor

Backend

• FastAPI - Modern Python web framework
• SQLAlchemy - SQL toolkit and ORM (planned to switch to SQLmodel)
• SQLite - Development database (planned to switch to PostgreSQL)

🔗 API Documentation

Once running, explore the auto-generated API docs at:

OpenAPI (Swagger) UI: http://localhost:8000/docs ReDoc: http://localhost:8000/redoc