Insta-clone

Site link https://nectifyinsta.herokuapp.com/

By: Oliver Maiyo

Screenshot of the App

Table of Content

Description
Installation Requirement
Technology Used
Licence
Authors Info

Description

This project is an instagram clone from original photo sharing app by meta. The features used for this project are similar to the ones of the actual platform. The future plans will include stories and reels

Behaviour Driven Development

The user is able to;

Sign in to the application to start using it
Upload photos to the applicaion
See their profile with all their pictures
Follow other users and see their pictures on the user's timeline
Like a picture and leave a comment on it

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

These are the things you need to install the software and how to install them

virtual enviroment:

$ clonenv

or

$ python3 -m venv virtual ( or your selected virtual enviroment name )

1. Local Repository

Make sure you have a stable internet to have the ability to clone the repository.
Type the following command in your terminal to clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Olliemint/Insta-clone.git

When you run the commands successfully, you should have a local version of this repository.

2. Online Repository

Make sure you have a stable internet for forking this repository.
According to the license, you can fork this project. You need to click on the forking icon and it will be added as one of your repositories

Feel free to fork the project and have fun with it. Happy coding!

Installing

To get a development env running, you simply need the install all the packages reguired from either a requirements.txt file or a pipfile. First you need to activate your virtual environment

$clonenv

of

$ source virtualenvname/bin/activate

after that, install all the required depencencies

$ pipenv install //pretty much takes care of installing all depencies for you

After this, you can run the application using the commands that come in the make file. for this case, it is either of the following:

$ make

or

$ make run

or

$ python manage.py runserver

Running the tests

If you want to run tests for the entire project, you need only run this command:

$ make test

or

$ python manage.py test

Olliemint/Insta-clone