Facebook-like social network that features Followers, Profile, Posts, Groups, Notifications, Chats

How To Run 'social-network'

Run 'social-network' in Docker:

1. To check docker status type:

systemctl status docker

2. In VSC terminal access 'social-network' root folder and type:

systemctl start docker 
sudo docker-compose up

3. When images have been built and the containers are running, go to browser url address and type:

http//localhost:3000

To exit Docker

1. In VSC terminal type:

CTRL + C 
sudo docker-compose down

2. To remove images type:

sudo docker image rm -f $(sudo docker image ls)

3. To view all containers:

sudo docker ps -a

4. To remove a container type:

sudo docker rm container ID e.g. 637a717eb106

5. To stop docker type:

systemctl stop docker

Troubleshooting:

1. If get error message: docker-compose-error-internal-booting-buildkit-http-invalid-host-header Run command to add user to the docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

2. If get Go error message: update the backend dockerfile to pull an updated go image from repository at https://hub.docker.com/_/golang

Run 'social-network' locally

1. In the 'frontend' folder make an '.env' file that contains: REACT_APP_API_URL=http://localhost:8000 DANGEROUSLY_DISABLE_HOST_CHECK=true

2. To install node files and create the package-lock.json and package.json files:

cd frontend
npm install react scripts

3. Check that this line of code is contained within the sqlite.go OpenDatabase function:

sqliteDatabase, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", filename+"?_journal_mode=WAL")

3. To run the GO back-end server:

cd backend
go run server.go

4. To run the React front-end server, in a separate VSC terminal window type:

cd frontend
npm start