Instagram Clone

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

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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.

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