jonpedigo/friends-only-social-network

social for HA

friends-only

Mini social network that I made as my first MERN stack project.

Demo

friends-only

Screenshots

Gif

Link to a full video

Video

Built With

• React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
• Redux - State managment
• Semantic UI React - UI
• Socket.io - Used for realtime features
• Node - Used for backend
• Mongodb - Database

Features

• Like posts, comments, replies
• See likes for posts, comments, replies
• Follow, unfollow
• Update user information
• Search users
• Tag people on post and in comments with autocomplete
• Send verification email
• Pagination for home feed, user profile, hashtag page, location page, notifications, comments, replies

Realtime

• Get notification when someone likes your post, comment, reply, tag you on post or reply on comment
• Chat send text message, image
• Seen feature and activity status of user

Installing

1. Install dependencies

npm i && cd client && npm i && cd ..

2. Create variables.env file and replace values with yours

NODE_ENV=development
DATABASE="Mongodb Connection String"
JWT_KEY="secretkey"
EMAILUSER="example@gmail.com"
EMAILPASS="example"
HOST="your ip eg. http://192.168.0.14:5000"
ENABLE_SEND_EMAIL="true or false" // false if you don't want to set it up
TEST_DATABASE="testing db"

3. Go into client/src/_services/socketService.js and replace

window.location.hostname

with your local IP address on port 5000 eg.

192.168.0.14:5000

4. Run project

npm run dev

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