Instagram Web Clone

Features

• MongoDB as database
• Real-time with Socket.io
• Image upload with multer

API

It's a simple "Instagram" application. The user can upload a photo with some infos, others users can see that post and like it as much as they want, all in real-time.

It uses socket.io to make it a real-time application

Setting up

2. Setup a mongoDB instance. You can do this on your own, but here are the steps to do it with docker:

   •  docker pull mongo

   •  docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -p 28017:28017 mongo

3. Enter project directory:

  cd web_instagram

3. Set the Mongo connection URL as an environment variable (use .env.example to create a .env file)

4. Run server in development:

  yarn dev

WEB

This project is the a instagram's like web app. Users can post a photo with location, description and hashtags. They can leave as many likes as they want!

Setting up

1. Enter project directory:

  cd web_instagram

2. Create a .env file based on the .env.example file and fill in the REACT_APP_API_URL environment variable (it should be http://localhost:3000)

3. Install the dependencies:

  yarn install

4. Run in development mode:

  yarn start

This is a ReactJS project, bootstrapped with Create React App