A clone of a popular social media platform, Instagram. Instagram is a social media platform that allows users to share photos and videos, as well as to interact with others through likes, comments, and direct messaging. The app is known for its sleek, user-friendly interface and powerful editing tools that allow users to enhance their photos and videos with filters, stickers, and other creative features.
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- Clone this repository
- Install dependencies npm install
- Create a .env file based on the .env.example
- Migrate the models npx dotenv sequelize-cli db:migrate
- Populate the data with seeders found in "backend/db/seeders" npx dotenv sequelize-cli db:seed:all
- Now run the application npm start
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Users can:
- Create a post (photos and videos) with the use of AWS to handle media storage
- Send instant messages to each other with the use of the socket.io library
- Edit their profile's information (bio, phone number, password, gender, etc)
- Get a random list of suggested users to follow (public profiles)
- Edit their post (turning off comments, allowing like counts to show, and changing caption)
- Search for other users with auto suggestion
- Reply to other user's comments
- Infinitely scroll through their feed
- Get notifications of pending follow requests
- Infinite scroll on the explore page
- "Saved" tab that stores all posts saved by the user
- "Report a Problem" button to send an email to the creators
- Stories
- Reels
- Highlights