/Instagram-Ethereum-Clone

This is a blockchain based Instagram(a social media platform) clone, powered by smart-contracts and Ethereum, this project is written in solidity, JS majorly.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Instagram-like D-App

Editors: Pavan Ananth Sharma & Darren Smith Michel

A simple Ethereum-based Instagram-like decentralized application (dapp) where you can post images, text, and view it but here the catch is, the whole process and functionality is powered by smart contracts

This repository is used in this Medium article:

https://medium.com/@gdmerida.bit/https-medium-com-creating-an-instagram-like-dapp-with-ipfs-cc4fac85cbfe

Prerequisites

  • Node - v10.x.x (preferrably v10.15.0 for long term support)
  • npm - v6.x.x (preferrably v6.6.0)

Running It Locally

Clone this repo via to your local machine and install the dependencies by doing the following:

git clone git@github.com:openberry-ac/instagram.git
cd instagram
npm install

Serve the application with hot reload in a development environment via:

npm run dev

Boilerplate

If it is only the boilerplate that you want to clone, do it via:

git clone git@github.com:openberry-ac/instagram.git --branch boilerplate --single-branch

And then do the same following commands as shown above for starting the application, you should be all set by then.

Built With

  • Solidity - Ethereum's smart contract programming language
  • Vue.js - The Javascript framework used
  • web3.js - Javascript library used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain
  • IPFS - InterPlanetary File System for peer-to-peer decentralized data storage.

Conclusio

Lets hope you enjoyed this code as well as the partially good tutorial, if so then do consider following here on GitHub and also on instagram