Connecti : A Social Media Website

Connecti is a full stack Social Media Website created using Express.JS. It is the one stop destination to connect with your friends and family.

Visit the official website!

Visit the Connecti website from this link : http://connecti.net.in/

The website is hosted on AWS and the domain name has been purchased from GoDaddy.

Screenshots

Features

Sign In/Sign Up using Passport.JS Local or Google Authentication.
There is a forgot password option, wherin the users will be sent a unique link to their mail Ids through which they can update the password.
Posting and Commenting.
Liking posts and comments.
Following/Unfollowing other users.
Updating profile picture.
Chatting on a public chat made using socket.io.
It is a responsive website.

Tech Stack

Client: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery.

Server: Node.JS, Express.JS, MongoDB.

Documentation

The project follows the MVC strcuture wherein our files are divided into Models, Views and Controllers folders.

1. index.js - This is the entry point to the app where our server is created which listens to requests on port 8000.

2. Models - It Consists of all the database schemas needed for the website.
           The main schemas used in the project are : 
              a. User -  Defines a user on the website.
              b. Post - Defines the post made by a user.
              c. Comment - Defines the comment made by a user on a post.
              d. Like - Defines the likes made by the user on a post/comment.
              e. Follow - Establishes a connection between users.
              f. PasswordToken - A unique access token generated if the user requests for a password change.

3. Views - It consists of the front-end appearence of the website. In this project EJS is used as the view template.

4. Controllers - They define all the actions that need to be performed when a specific route is request. 
                 There are controllers for home, user (which has a profile, sign in, sign up, update, forgot password), 
                 post (which has create, destroy), comment (which has creare destroy), like (which has create destroy),
                 and follow.

5. Routes - It consists of the routes which route a partiular request to a particular controller. The index.js fail has the 
            main home route other routes are further routed from here.
6. Config - It consists of the configuration files for the various libraries used in the project such as MongooseODM, Passport.JS Local and Google OAuth,
            Socket.io etc.

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/rajarshisg/Social-Media-Site.git

Go to the project directory

  cd Social-Media-Site

Install dependencies

  npm install

Start the server

  npm start

Authors

@rajarshisg