Vue Forum

Simple and beautiful forum software - created using Express, Vue, and Sequelize.
Click here for a link to the demo.

Features

• Mobile ready single-page application
• Real-time notification system
• Profile pictures
• Infinite-scroll loading of posts and threads
• @ mentions
• Polls
• Markdown editor
• Inline link expansions for Twitter, GitHub, Wikipedia, and more to come
• Admin dashboard for forum analytics
• Multiple admin users
• Moderation built in, including:
  • Locking or deleteing threads and posts
  • Blocking user IP address
  • Suspending users from creating posts or starting threads

Screenshots

Homepage

Admin dashboard

Admin settings page

Admin user page

Admin moderation page

Install

To install on Heroku:

1. git clone https://github.com/sbkwgh/forum.git && cd forum
2. heroku login
3. heroku git:remote -a <app-name>
4. heroku config:set NODE_ENV=production
5. heroku config:set SESSION_SECRET=<session-secret>
6. Add database add-on, get database URL
7. heroku config:set DATABASE_URL=<database-url>
8. cd frontend && npm install
9. npx vue-cli-service build
10. Remove the line dist/ from .gitignore
11. cd .. && git add -A && git commit -m "Update .gitignore"
12. git push heroku master
13. Visit the URL of the app and complete the on-screen instructions

N.B. the database here is assumed to be MySQL - to use Postgres or another you must install the corresponding driver on npm