Social Media Website

A full-stack Facebook clone / social media application built with Django and React.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Technologies Used
• Setup
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Introduction

SocialMediaDjangoReact is a social media application that leverages the power of Django for backend development and React for frontend development. This project aims to provide a platform for users to connect, share content, and engage with each other.

Features

• User Authentication (Signup, Login, Logout)
• User Profiles
• User Follow Feature
• Posts (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
• Comments on posts
• Like functionality for posts and comments
• Realtime Websocket Notifications on new comments & follows & likes
• Responsive design

Technologies Used

• Backend: Django
• Frontend: React
• Database: SQLite (default, can be configured to use PostgreSQL or MySQL)
• Others: Django REST Framework, Axios, Channels

Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Node.js and npm
• REDIS

Backend Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/ardaaltinors/SocialMediaDjangoReact.git
   cd SocialMediaDjangoReact

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

    python -m venv venv
    source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the backend dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Apply the migrations:

   python manage.py migrate

5. Start Redis service (for WebSocket notifications):

   brew services start redis #On MacOS

6. Run the development server:

   python manage.py runserver

Frontend Setup

1. Navigate to the frontend directory:

   cd frontend

2. Install the frontend dependencies:

   npm install

3. Start the React development server:

   npm run dev

Usage

Once both the backend and frontend servers are running, you can access the application at http://localhost:5173 for the frontend and http://localhost:8000 for the backend API.

Easy Setup with Docker

To simplify the development setup, you can use Docker and Docker Compose.

To start the application using Docker Compose, follow these steps:

• Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your system.
• Navigate to the project root directory where the docker-compose.yml file is located.
• Run the following command to build and start the containers:

  docker-compose up --build

• Access the frontend at http://localhost and the backend API at http://localhost:8000

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature-branch)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add new feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push main feature-branch)
5. Create a pull request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.