Create a Reddit clone with RedwoodJS

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Yarn

The Yarn Package Manager installed. Redwood leverages yarn workspaces, so yarn is needed. You can install it using npm I -g yarn.

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Typescript

If you're like me however, and you've fallen in love with TypeScript, you can create a Redwood typescript app by adding the --typescript flag to the above command like so:.

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Storybook

There are various other libraries used like Jest and Storybook, but these are not needed to follow this tutorial.

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React

Redwood uses React for the frontend framework, so you'll need to know React.

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Prisma GraphQL API

Redwood uses Prisma for interacting with databases, but it's very easy to use, and you can pick it up from this tutorial itself. Prisma works with SQL databases.

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PostgreSQL

A Postgres database running. You can either have the Postgres server installed, or use Docker. I'll be doing the latter in this tutorial.

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Jekyll

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GraphQL

Redwood uses GraphQL instead of REST APIs, so knowledge of that is required. You can learn it on the official website.

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GitHub

Github, which is the most popular code host.

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Docker

Postgres needs to be installed on your computer. You can download it and install it, and have a system-wide install of postgres, or you can use Docker to containerize it, which is easier to do. You'll need docker installed, however, and you can get it from here.

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Visual Studio Code

A powerful code editor like VSCode or (Neo)Vim. If you're using VSCode, be sure to install the Redwood extension.

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Auth0

This will setup a local authentication provider that saves your users' credentials on the database. Redwood also supports some authentication-as-a-service providers out-of-the-box, like Auth0 and Magic. Read more about that here.

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asdf-vm

NodeJS v14 or higher. I'll be using v16. (Psst: For an easy way to manage versions of NodeJS and many others, try https://asdf-vm.com).

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