jewarner57 / inmige

Decentralized image hosting and sharing.

Decentralized image hosting and sharing.

• About the Project
• Features
• Run locally
• Live App
• Screenshots
• Technologies used
• Shout outs

About The Project

• inmige takes heavy inspiration from the image hosting app imgur. The project was inspired by web3 hype and although not entirely decentralized, is a step in that direction.
• inmige was built by me for an applied computer science intensive (think 2 week hackathon) at Dominican University of California.

Features

• inmige offers image hosting and sharing features such as commenting, liking, etc.
• inmige stores all uploaded media on the decentralized ipfs network ensuring that your images remain safe.

Run locally

• You can run inmige locally by cloning the repo and running npm install in both the client and api folders.
• Then run npm start in both the client and api folders too.
• You will need to make sure your local mongodb engine is running for storing user accounts.

Link App

• Check out the live project deployed at: inmige.in

Screenshots of app

Technologies used

• inmige is built on Mongodb, Express, React, Node.js, (MERN stack). Image storage for the app is powered by the interplanetary file system IPFS

Shout outs

• Shout out to imgur for design and feature inspiration.
• Shout out to this tutorial on uploading images to ipfs using react for getting me started.