tebellox / instagramclone

Welcome to InstagramClone 👋

Main repository of the SimCoder's youtube series "Make an App like INSTAGRAM"

Make a web app Like INSTAGRAM

I'll show you how you can do this in the simplest way and terms possible.

By the end of this series you'll have learned how the big companies do it and will be able to do the same, you not only will be able to do this app, but you'll be able to put what you learn into your very own projects!

Any question, ask me in the Forum, every question gets an answer! http://www.simcoder.com/forum

This project will be made using react native, firebase firestore, firebase storage, redux, expo, along with a lot of other packages and technologies which will help us get this Instagram clone app up and running as fast as possible.

📺 View the youtube tutorial series here

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➕ Features

Currently the project has the following features:

• expo boilerplate
• Auth system
• Post Images w/ descriptions
  • Take pictures directly in app
  • Choose from gallery
• Profile page
• Follow/Unfollow users
• Feed in chronological order
• Search Users
• Comment Posts
• Comment Likes
• Redesign

💻 Install

First you need to install Nodejs and npm, this is different depending on the OS you are running so it is easier to check the node page

Install expo, if it fails run you might need to run this with sudo

npm install expo-cli --global

Install the needed packages while in the root folder of the project

npm install

Install firebase tools

npm install -g firebase-tools

Deploy the project to yout firebase projhect (make sure to have billing enabled for that project). copy the backend/functions/index.js into a different place

cd backend
firebase login
firebase init (choose functions, javascript, EsLint and install deplendencies)

Copy the index.js into the place of the new index.js

firebase deploy

You can check the first video on this series to learn how to do it easily

📱 Usage

To Start expo all you have to do is run this line

expo start

If you want to run on android you'll need to enable developer options and USB Debugging on your device

💙 question FAQ

If you have any question then please use the following Forum.

👤 Author

SimCoder

• Website: www.simcoder.com
• Twitter: @simcoder_here
• Github: @simcoderYoutube
• Youtube: SimCoder

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📝 License

Copyright © 2020 SimCoder.

This project is Apache License 2.0 licensed. Some of the dependencies are licensed differently.