Welcome to PinThis!

PinThis is a Pinterest clone where users have full CRUD on Pin, Board, Comments and favorite functions. The backend of PinThis is built on Python with a PostgreSQL database. Frontend rendering is handled with React. Check out a live version of PinThis here

Technologies Used

Getting started

1. Clone this repository
2. Install dependencies

• Backend

      pipenv install

• Frontend

      npm install

3. Create a .env file based on the example with proper settings for your development environment, you should have these key in the .env file .

   • SECRET_KEY
   • DATABASE_URL
   • SCHEMA
   • S3_BUCKET
   • S3_KEY
   • S3_SECRET

4. Make sure the SQLite3 database connection URL is in the .env file

5. Set up your database with information from your .env and then run the following to create your database, migrate, and seed

 pipenv shell

pipenv db init

 flask db migrate

flask db upgrade

flask seed all

6. Start the app for both backend and frontend using:

• backend :
  • pipenv run flask run
• frontend :
  • npm start

Landing Page

Sign up & Log in

Home Page

Pin detail page

Create Pin page

Create a board and invite collaborators

Favorite a specific pin

Features

Pins

• Users should be able to view all posted Pins.
• Users should be able to create new posts.
• Users should be able to update their posts
• Users should be able to delete their posts.

Boards

• Users should be able to view all boards on a user's profile.
• Users should be able to create new boards and add/remove Pins.
• Users should be able to update their boards.
• Users should be able to delete their boards.

Comments

• Users should be able to view all comments on a pin.
• Users should be able to create new comments on a pin.
• Users should be able to delete their comment from a pin.

Favorites

• Users should be able to see all Pins they favorited.
• Users should be able to favorite Pins.
• Users should be able to unfavorite Pins.