simonkairu / instagram

This week you will be creating a clone of the website for the popular photo app Instagram

Instagram

4/12/2021

By Simon Kairu

Description

Instagram is an app where users are aple to create an account and upload images.Viewers are able to like comment and share.

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Features

*As a user of Instagram web application, you will be able to:
*Sign in to the application to start using. *Upload my pictures to the application. *See my profile with all my pictures. *Follow other users and see their pictures on my timeline. *Like a picture and leave a comment on it.

Setup/Installation Requirements

To interact with the Instagram web application:

• Have the latest version of browser installed
• Click on this link to view the instagram.

To contribute to Instagram web application:

Clone the Repo

• Create an account on Github
• Fork the repository from Github with this link
• Clone the repository
• Open the project cloned project

Activate virtual environment

Activate virtual environment using python3.6 as default handler virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install dependancies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the Database

- psql
- CREATE DATABASE gram;

.env file

Create .env file and paste paste the following filling where appropriate:

SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key>'
DBNAME = 'gram'
USER = '<Username>'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
DEBUG = True  

Run initial Migration

python3.8 manage.py makemigrations Instagram
python3.8 manage.py migrate     

Run the app

python3.8 manage.py runserver
Open terminal on localhost:8000    

Known Bugs

There are no known bugs so far

Technologies Used

• Python v3.8
• HTML
• Bootstrap
• Django
• Postgres

Support and contact details

In case of any problem while interacting with the web application, reach out to me at [email protected]

License.

MIT Copyright (c) 2021 MITlicense