The idea

Most of the apps, made to show the number of unfollowers on Twitter, I tried were performing too slow because of server-side rendering, or the UI was not optimized for mobile.

That's why I decided to build a new app to perform this task.

Live demo: https://sa.ekrzeptowski.pl

Tech stack

Social assistant is built using MERN stack:

• MongoDB
• ExpressJS
• React
• Node.js

Frontend

The frontend side of the Social assistant is licensed under the MIT license and was written using Gatsby.js.

Libraries used:

• Gatsby.js - it has helped to improve SEO and loading experience of the landing page.
• Material-UI - Material Design React UI framework
• Redux with Redux Toolkit - used for state management
• gatsby-plugin-mdx - used to render the privacy policy Markdown page

Backend

The backend side of the Social assistant is running under Node.js.

Libraries used:

• Express - a Node.js framework
• MongoDB - database
• ws - WebSocket server used to broadcast actual data sync status
• passport.js - used for Twitter authentication
• twitter-lite - lightweight library for Twitter API
• Agenda - (A lightweight job scheduling library for Node.js) used for scheduling user data updates