Elbows

Social network platform inpired by Instagram. Welcome to Elbows where you can "rub elbows" with friends and family from a safe social distance.

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Key Features

• Users can create accounts, login, and logout.
• Users can create posts with an image and text.
• Users can view, like, and leave comments on posts created by friends.
• Users can delete their own posts and comments.
• Users can follow and unfollow other users.
• Users can like and unlike posts.

Technology Used

• React
• Redux
• Node.js
• Flask
• PostgreSQL
• SQLAlchemy
• Psycopg2
• PyJWT
• AWS S3
• Docker
• JavaScript, HTML and CSS

Creating Posts

React-dropzone-uploader library was used on the frontend to enable drag-and-drop functionality as well as to post file metadata to the backend. Boto3 library was used on the backend to handle uploading images to the AWS S3 bucket.

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Planned Feature Components

• Improvements in transaction's functionalities
• Funding account from dashboard
• Add collection tags to categorize companies