deepeshgodhwani / instagram-clone

It’s an online social media platform along with backend integration. Allowing users to upload photos ,follow other users, and engage with content through likes and comments

Instagram Clone

It's a Full Stack Social Media web application with all the major functionalities

🖥️ Tech Stack

Frontend:

Backend:

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It's a Full Stack Social Media web application .It allows users to create accounts, Post Photos interact with other users through likes and comments, and follow other users. Through this project, I gained hands-on experience in full-stack web development, RESTful APIs, user authentication, and cloud-based deployment.

Screens ( All screens are responsive along with Dark Mode)

• Login / Forgot Password page
• Signup / Email Verification page
• Home (Feed) Page
• Chatting Page
• Explore Page
• Profile View Page
• Edit Profile / Change Password Page

🚀 Features

• Log in / Sign up user authentication (passport-local).
• Email verification / Forgot password (Nodemailer).
• Login with Facebook (passport-facebook).
• Follow / Unfollow other user
• Real-time search of user-profiles
• Post creation with the caption / Like, comment, and delete the post.
• Direct message (real-time one-to-one chat).
• Profile picture, name, username, bio, and other details update features with notifications.

Glimpses of Instagram Clone 🙈 :

Getting Started

This project was built using HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript, EJS , Node JS, Express and MongoDB. It is an Social Media web application and for running on your local environment you should follow these guidelines.

Prerequisites

• NPM
• Node JS
• MongoDB

Setup

The project repository can be found in GitHub link or just clone the project using this command.

Using HTTPS

# git clone  https://github.com/Deepeshgodhwani/Instagram-clone.git

• Open terminal on your workspace with

cd /home/workspace/Instagram-clone

Install

Install NPM

Check that you have node and npm installed

To check if you have Node.js installed, run this command in your terminal:

node -v

To confirm that you have npm installed you can run this command in your terminal:

npm -v

To confirm that you have MongoDB installed you can run this command in your terminal:

mongo -v

To install all the dependences of the project, run the following command:

npm install

To run the application got to the client folder and run the following command:

npm start

Environment Variables

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

INSTAGRAM_CLONE_ENVIRONMENT

ASSET_PATH

SESSION_COOKIE_KEY

INSTAGRAM_CLONE_DB

INSTAGRAM_CLONE_GMAIL_USERNAME

INSTAGRAM_CLONE_GMAIL_PASSWORD

FACEBOOK_CLIENT_ID

FACEBOOK_CLIENT_SECRET

FACEBOOK_CALL_BACKURL

Tools used on this project

• Visual Studio Code
• MongoDB compass

Contact

If you want to contact me, you can reach me through below handles.

© 2023 Deepesh Godhwani

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