Building an AI-powered Quora clone with Next.js, Cloudflare, and Strapi V5

[winnie-n]

What is your article idea?

This is a tutorial that walks through how to create an AI-powered Quora clone that hosts community-sourced and ranked questions and answers.

What are the objectives of your article?

Building an AI-powered Quora clone with Next.js, Cloudflare, and Strapi V5

1. Introduction

• Describe Quora and its functionality
• Talk about the uses cases for a Quora clone
• Walk through how the project will work and its features

2. Prerequisites

• List prerequisites: Node.js, Next.js, Strapi, Cloudflare
• Describe their uses

3. Setting up your Strapi Backend

• Creating a Strapi app
• Adding content types
  • Users
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Comments

4. Setting up your frontend

• Create your Next.js app
• Create authentication pages
• Create an AI-powered question input page
• Add an answers page
• Build a question list page

5. Conclusion

• Summarize what was covered in the tutorial
• Talk about Strapi and its features

Objectives

• Learn how to build a community-content-sourced app and manage content with Strapi
• Learn how to incorporate generative AI into an app

Technologies

• Strapi V5: for content management
• Next.js: for the frontend
• Cloudflare: for generative AI
• Tailwind CSS: for styling

User story

As a user of this Quora clone, I want to post questions to the community. I should receive AI-generated answers as well as be able to read answers written by other users. Depending on whether I like the answer or not, I can upvote or downvote a question. Additionally, I need to see other related questions listed.

What is your expertise as a developer or writer?

Intermediate

What type of post is this?

Tutorial

Terms & Conditions

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[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Hi @winnie-n ,

This looks interesting. Could you please list out the features we will be creating in this tutorial as related to Quora?

Here is an example of what I mean: #1510 (comment)

[winnie-n]

Sure @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku.

These are basic Quora features that I would like to cover:

1. Create, list, update, and delete questions
2. Create, list, update, and delete answers
3. Create, list, update, and delete comments to answers
4. Upvote and downvote answers
5. A bot that will generate an answer to your question the moment you post it (Quora's is called Poe I believe)
6. Search questions, answers, and comments
7. Create, update, and sign into user accounts

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Thank you @winnie-n .

This looks very interesting. Most importantly, we want a UI and basic functionalities as that of Quora too.

We could make this a series:

Part 1:

• Create, update, and sign into user accounts
• Create, list, update, and delete questions
• Create, list, update, and delete answers

Part 2:

• Create, list, update, and delete comments to answers
• Upvote and downvote answers

Part 3

• A bot that will generate an answer to your question the moment you post it (Quora's is called Poe I believe)
• Search questions, answers, and comments

NOTE: Parts of this series should be complete before we can start review and publishing.

Please let me know if you are willing to proceed.

[winnie-n]

Yes. I can proceed. I'll ensure that the UI and functionalities match Quora.

Thank you @Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku for reviewing this and for your comments. Really appreciate it.

[Theodore-Kelechukwu-Onyejiaku]

Please proceed. Thank you.