Twitter Clone

• Stack used - Next.js, sanity CMS, Typescript, SSR (Server side rendering), Tailwind CSS, NextAuth, GROQ language, React Twitter Embed, next-sanity and Deploy on vercel
• The content loading on our twitter app will be through SSR
• Now you can login using twitter only then you will be able to make tweet

Project Video

About Sanity

• How to query sanity platform using GROQ (query language similar to graphQL)
• Will use sanity as it is a content platform, use Sanity studio to create our structured content
• Sanity studio will allow us to store our tweets, Allow us to have comments reference to each tweet (signin/signup to sanity account with your account)
• Sanity - install sanity globally (npm install -g @sanity/cli) - use sanity init in project with coupon (sanity init --coupon sonny2022)
• After building sanity, You will get sanity folder inside project - Think of it as a small project inside your project
  • cd sanity
  • sanity start → Starts sanity studio on your machine
  • Then login in screen at port 3333-
• When you launch studio you can see that sanity provides functionality of providing comments with reference to posts while creating them
• You can see your tweets, fetched from API (getTweets.ts) which fetches from sanity studio using groq

Other stacks used

• Also used next-sanity - https://github.com/sanity-io/next-sanity

yarn add next-sanity @portabletext/react @sanity/image-url

• Used React twitter embed for having RHS panel Feed, We just put username and it gets its feed to panel - https://github.com/saurabhnemade/react-twitter-embed

• react-timeago npm library - shows how long ago tweet was made it updates time without reloading and takes time from our api - https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-timeago (yarn add react-timeago)

  • to add type definition for react-timeago - (yarn add --dev @types/react-timeago)

• Used getServerSideProps - If you export a function called getServerSideProps  (Server-Side Rendering) from a page, Next.js will pre-render this page on each request using the data returned by getServerSideProps

• typings.d.ts file which defines type definition for typescript

• Used React-hot-toast - creates toast - https://react-hot-toast.com/ (yarn add react-hot-toast)

• If you get error like node version is not compatible run - yarn config set ignore-engines true

  • Then run yarn add next-auth
  • How NextAuth works - It makes sessions for signing and signout for a user, In our app we have used Twitter client id and secret key for authentication of user/ signin of user through twitter

• ApiEndPoint from sanity - https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-mutations for mutations (From mutations we have added the functionality of adding tweets)

  • In mutation we post our tweet in sanity backend and then fetch and show it

• In tailwind CSS to hide scroll bar use tailwind-scrollbar-hide (yarn add tailwind-scrollbar-hide) → https://www.npmjs.com/package/tailwind-scrollbar-hide

Important project links

• http://localhost:3000/
• http://localhost:3333/vision --> fetch here using below code

  •   *[_type == "tweet" && !blockTweet]{
      _id,
      ...
      } | order(_createdAt desc)
    

• http://localhost:3333/desk

How to run project

Make .env.local file in root folder

• adding NEXT_PUBLIC means allow this to see in client as well as server side
• to get API key - go to sanity-project-API-Add API Token
  • Name - Twitter-clone
  • permission - editor - save
  • It will show API token only once so save it
• Save below things in .env.local file

NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_DATASET=production
NEXT_PUBLIC_SANITY_PROJECT_ID=projectid      //project id from sanity
SANITY_API_TOKEN=token
NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:3000/  //later replace when hosting

NEXTAUTH_URL=http://localhost:3000/          //change while Deploying
NEXTAUTH_SECRET=anypassword

TWITTER_CLIENT_ID=id
TWITTER_CLIENT_SECRET=secret_key             //from twitter developer account and make development app

• http://localhost:3000/api/getTweets - go to this API to get tweets

To update feed just change username to yours

• In Widgets.tsx file

      <TwitterTimelineEmbed
        sourceType="profile"
        screenName="romiljain" //change username here
        options={{ height: 1000 }}
      />

Important Commands

npm install   //installs Node modules
yarn dev      //runs project

cd sanity
sanity start  //starts sanity studio make account on it first

To use HeroIcons just import package - check icons here https://heroicons.com/ - Search for any icon - remove dash b/w them and add Icon at last

• ex - if icon name is badge-check write it as BadgeCheckIcon
• import {Icons} from '@heroicons/react/solid' → for solid one
• import {Icons} from '@heroicons/react/outline' → for outline one

Useful links

• https://v2.tailwindcss.com/docs/guides/nextjs
• https://heroicons.com/ → Documentation - https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons
• https://github.com/saurabhnemade/react-twitter-embed
• Sanity.io - https://www.sanity.io/sonny
• Sanity documentation - https://www.sanity.io/docs/overview-introduction
• https://github.com/sanity-io/next-sanity
• https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/data-fetching/get-server-side-props
• https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/declaration-files/templates/module-d-ts.html
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-timeago
• https://react-hot-toast.com/
• https://next-auth.js.org/
• https://www.sanity.io/docs/http-mutations
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/tailwind-scrollbar-hide