Mini-Insta

Live link (https://Minii-Instaa.herokuapp.com)

Web clone of the Instagram app

22-10-2020

By Nelly Kamotho

Description

This is a simple web clone of the instagram website. A user can create an account and sign into it. The site supports uploading images, and following other users. users can view photos uploaded by other users in the home page of app.

Specifications

Find the specs here

Set Up and Installations

Prerequisites

Ubuntu Software
Python3.6
Postgres
python virtualenv

Clone the Repo

Run the following command on the terminal: git clone https://github.com/kiira254/Mini-Insta.git && cd Instagram

Activate virtual environment

Activate virtual environment using python3.6 as default handler

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install dependancies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the Database

psql
CREATE DATABASE insta;

.env file

Create .env file and paste paste the following filling where appropriate:

SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key>'
DBNAME = 'insta'
USER = '<Username>'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
DEBUG = True

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<your-email>'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '<your-password>'

Run initial Migration

python3.6 manage.py makemigrations 
python3.6 manage.py migrate

Run the app

python3.6 manage.py runserver

Open terminal on localhost:8000

Known bugs

Like and Follow functionality do not work

Technologies used

- Python 3.6
- HTML
- Bootstrap 4
- JavaScript
- Heroku
- Postgresql

Support and contact details

Contact me on nkamotho69@gmail.com for any comments, reviews or advice.