Facebook Clone

This project is a minimal clone of Facebook, aiming to replicate some of its core functionalities. It serves as a practical exercise and demonstration of web development technologies and architectural patterns.

Technologies Used

• Server Side: ASP.NET 7, Entity Framework
• Identity Service: Duende Identity (Formely known as IdentityServer)
• Databe Tech: SQL Server
• Client Side: React JS, Next.js, TailwindCSS

Architecture

The application follows the principles of Clean Architecture. This ensures separation of concerns, scalability, and maintainability.

Features

This is the list of features we initially planned on implementing. We've categorize these features as modules.

Identity Module

• User registration and authentication

Post Module

• Adding posts
• Commenting on a post
• Reacting to a post (like, love, laugh and different other types of reactions)
• Replying to a post's comment

Friend Connection Module

• Adding friends
• Making connection friends
• Chatting with friends
• Viewing friends that are online
• etc...

Getting Started

Provide a brief guide on how to set up the project.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ChrisClaude/FacebookClone

2. Run the backend

   cd FacebookClone
   cd src/FacebookClone.API
   dotnet ef database update
   dotnet run

   Make sure the connection string in appsettings.json matches your sql server configurations. You might want to change the credentials to your own credentials.

3. Run the Frontend

   cd FacebookClone
   cd src/web-client
   npm install
   npm dev

Contributing

If you wish to contribute, please follow our contributing guidelines. All contributions are welcome, from bug reports to feature requests and pull requests.

License

This project is open-source under the MIT License.