A mobile web app that you can safely share pet photos with friends. Sending awkward photos? Don't worry, they will disappear.
built by Paul Watson
- Users have to sign up to use the app
- Sign-up requires an unique username, an unique email address, a strong password and a profile image
- The profile image can be selected from pre-existing stocks or can upload by user
| Sign up | Log in |
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built by Ai Lam
- Message is shown in reverse chronological order
- Unread message is bold
- Chat friend's username, last message and time from last message is shown
built by Danting Huang
- Users can start real-time chat with friends with text messages and photos
- Send is disable if no message is entered
- Both receiver and sender can view the photo in a modal for a zoomed version
- A download button allows the receiver to download the photo shared by friends (right click "save image as..." option is disabled)
- Upon clicking the download button, the photo will be download to local and a alert message will appear showing that the receiver has saved the photo
- Click download button will also trigger email notification showing the photo has been saved by receiver (implemented by Paul Watson)
built by Ziqian Li
- Users can take a photo using camera or upload a picture from local device
- Send is disabled when no image is selected
- A preview allows user to confirm image that is to be sent
- Snap button is disabled when there is an image selected
- After sent, image will disappear after 10 minutes since receiver opens the message
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- Search and add friends built by Noelle Tian
- Friend list built by Amrinder Singh
- Fork the project and clone to your local repository
- Install all the packages and dependencies by running:
npm install- Run webpack at local development mode:
npm run build- Start server:
npm start- create
.envfile and add the following varialbles:
SECRET="abc"
AWS_BUCKET_NAME=YOUR_BUCKET_NAME
AWS_BUCKET_REGION=YOUR_BUCKET_REGION
AWS_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
AWS_SECRET_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_KEY
EMAIL="pawprints.notification@gmail.com"
EMAIL_PASSWORD="lpenritakquzjohk"
S3_BUCKET=YOUR_S3_BUCKET
REGION=YOUR_REGION
ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY- Visit http://localhost:3000 to start the page
This is a month long project where our team completed an MVP full stack application for an external user.
- Each week is a sprint.
- First sprint is planning, design and code skeleton, CI/CD set up.
- Second and third week is Agile developement
- Last week is app polish including bug fixes and UI finalization
- Personal goals as following:
- Ai Lam: Message List
- Amrinder Singh: Friends list
- Danting Huang: Instant messaging
- Noelle Tian: Add Friends
- Paul Watson: Authentication feature
- Ziqian Li: Build routing and picture upload, image expiration features.
Without refreshing page to send instant messages between 2 users. Research on socket.io.
Quick and effectively style the app as a mobile-friendly web app. Research on Material UI.
- Ai Lam (Software Engineer)
- Amrinder Singh (Software Engineer)
- Danting Huang (UI Owner & Software Engineer)
- Noelle Tian (Software Engineer)
- Paul Watson (Architecture Owner & Software Engineer)
- Ziqian Li (Product Manager & Software Engineer)