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deaafrizal/cuyuniverse-forum
CUYUNIVERSE THE FREEDOM OF CODE
A Laravel 9 + React forum/blog app built as a learning project by an Indonesian YouTube creator. It's a working Inertia.js SPA with posts, comments, likes, notifications, and saved posts. The target audience is beginners learning the Laravel + React stack by reading real code.
Inertia.js integration is done correctly — no separate API layer needed, which is the right call for a project this size. The notification system covers likes, comments, and @mentions with proper Laravel notification classes. Rate limiting on posts (config/rate-limit.php) shows some production awareness. The factory and seeder setup is solid enough to get a local dev environment running without manual data entry.
Last commit was January 2023, so it's frozen on Laravel 9 and whatever React/Vite versions existed then — adopting this means immediately inheriting old dependencies. The README is entirely in Indonesian with zero English, which limits its usefulness as a reference for most developers. There are no feature tests for the core post/comment/like flows — only auth tests and a single rate limiter test. The CONTRIBUTING.md link in the README points to a repo that doesn't match the actual repo URL (laract9 vs cuyuniverse-forum), which is a sign this project is more personal portfolio than maintained OSS.