SocioKnct

A Social Medial Application where user can post,comment and like other post.

Deployed URL

• https://www.socioknct.tech (Currently not working !!)
• https://socioknct.onrender.com(Not working !!)

Features

• Realtime Posting Images, Audio , Video, Text and Creating Poll
• Home page consist of widgets of weather, news and user profile
• Google OAuth2.0
• Forget-Password, Email Verification
• Friend Request System
• Realtime Likes, Comments, Replies
• ChatRooms where two friends can chat (using Socketio)
• AutoComplete Search using jquery.
• Notification via email when there is new FriendRequest, new Comment.
• Email Worker (using Bull.js) for managing jobs and reducing server load.

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the following environment variables to your .env file

• CODEIAL_SESSION_COOKIE_KEY {Session Cookie for local authentication}
• CODEIAL_DB_NAME {Database collection name}
• CODEIAL_ASSET_PATH {asset path of js,css,images}
• CODEIAL_MAILER_USERNAME {email username for nodemailer}
• CODEIAL_MAILER_PASSWORD {email password for nodemailer}
• CODEIAL_JWT_SECRET_KEY {JWT key JWT Authenication}
• CODEIAL_MONGODB_URL {Cloud MongoDB URL}
• CODEIAL_GOOGLE_CLIENTID {For Google OAuth}
• CODEIAL_GOOGLE_CLIENTSECRET {For Google OAuth}
• CODEIAL_GOOGLE_CALLBACKURL {For Google OAuth}
• CODEIAL_REDIS_PASSWORD {Bull.js require redis database}
• PORT { Port where server and socket.io will run}

Deployment

Depolyed on AWS EC2 and Render.com Server

• Install node using nvm on aws EC2

• Install redis, pm2, nginx, gulp on same

• Minify assets using gulp and start running server using pm2 start index.js {

   `redis` : used by bull.js as email worker that reduce server load and manage jobs
   `pm2` : Better than nodemon because it keep on running even after getting error
   `nginx` : Used as proxy server to balance load on server
   `gulp` : to Minify js,css,images (optimising assets)
  

  }

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/omseervi098/SocioKnct

Go to the project directory

  cd SocioKnct

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  nodemon index.js

Tech Stack

Client: EJS, SCSS, JQuery, Ajax, Bootstrap

Server: Node, Express, MongoDB, Redis, SocketIO