Pic Lounge

A vibrant and engaging social media application

Piclounge is a vibrant and engaging social media application that allows users to connect, share, and discover captivating visual content. Powered by React.js and Node.js, Piclounge provides an immersive and intuitive user experience.

• Amazing media sharing experience

Features

• User authentication with email verification.
• Media Sharing with less amount of processing time.
• Responsive for all Screen size.
• Chating feature included.

Tech

Pic Lounge using number of tech to power the functionality:

• - A powerfull javascript framework, used to build web-applications!
• - Another javascript framework used to build server using nodejs environment.
• - A document based database.

Run on Local Machine

Pic Lounge requires Node.js v18+ to run. You will find two root folder in the repository. Client and Server, as it's name both contains different type of code.

Run Server

Prerequisite

• Application specific google password
• An Imagekit account

1. Create a .env in root of server folder and add following Variable.

PORT=8080
EMAIL_PASSWORD=<GOOGLE_APPLICATION_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD>
IMAGEKIT_PUBLIC_KEY=<YOUR_IMAGEkIT_PUBLIC_KEY>
IMAGEKIT_PRIVATE_KEY=<YOUR_IMAGEKIT_PRIVATE_KEY>
IMAGEKIT_URL_ENDPOINT=https://ik.imagekit.io/<IMAGEKIT_ENDPOINT>
JWT_SECRET_KEY=<YOUR_JWT_SCERET_KEY>
DB_URL=<YOUR_MONGO_DB_URL>

2. Navigate to ./server/controller/authenticationController.js and replace piclounge.developer@gmail.com with your email at line number 13 and 87.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

cd server
npm install 
npm start

Run Client

Before we open our terminal to start the client lets change few fileds in following files.

• In client\src\components\profile\ProfileImageUploader.jsx at line number 20, 21 and in client\src\components\home\ImageUploader.jsx at line 15 and 16, change it with your Imagekit publickey and urlendpoint.

Install Yarn to your local mashine (NOTE:- if you already have yarn installed you can skip this step.)

npm install --global yarn

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the client.

cd client
yarn install
yarn start

Access the application

• Open any browser and hit http://localhost:3000

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Rohan Mourya

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Thank You..