README

This sample Drupal project installs a standard Drupal site that configures user profile pages to act like user timelines (similar to Twitter and other social media applications).

Read full tutorial: https://medium.com/@jrcallicott/create-a-twitter-style-application-in-drupal-8207e4aaef96

Key Features

• User timeline with short posts
• User mentions
• Threads
• Likes
• Follow user posts
• Drush command for creating test users
• Easy to customize

Quick start

1. Create a new Drupal project with this template

   composer create-project 'drupalninja/drupal-social:1.x-dev' projectname

2. Enable ddev (optional)

   ddev start

3. Install Drupal (standard)

   ddev . drush si -y

4. Enable social feature

   ddev . drush en -y social

5. Create test users with comments

   ddev . drush sdu

Customizing

• Views: liked_posts and posts_timeline can be customized
• "Posts" comment type can be customized