Twitter Clone Part 3: Adding Tweet Reactions and Showing Notifications
Blog post from Stream
The third part of the "Build a Twitter Clone" series focuses on enhancing the application with tweet reactions, threads, and notifications. The tutorial provides detailed steps on implementing like and comment functionalities using custom hooks and the "react-activity-feed" library. Users can now engage with tweets through likes and comments, while a thread view allows for expanded tweet discussions. Notifications have also been integrated to alert users of new follows, likes, and comments, employing the use of a notification feed and custom components to display grouped notifications. The guide emphasizes the use of activity feeds to simulate real-time interactions, demonstrating how to create a dynamic and interactive Twitter clone with features that mimic the original platform, ultimately illustrating the potential of activity feeds in various application contexts.