costamay / instasocialapp

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Instagram-App

A clone of the website for the popular photo app Instagram

By Aoko Mercyline

Created on:

• 21/10/2020

Description

This is an app that allows users to create their accounts,upload there profile,post any image with description, like post and comment on other people posts

Project live site

Features

• User can register and log in to application using their own and unique credentials and view other peoples posts.
• A user can like and comment on a post.
• A user can upload posts and edit their profile.
• A user can view profiles of people they follow.
• Admin can regulate images uploaded by deleting from the admin dashboard as well as completely close a users account.

Behavior Driven Development

Behavior	Input	Output
User visits the app and gets redirected to the login page	User logs in	Directed to the home page where they see posted photos
If user has no account, they click on sign up	User signs up	User is redirected to the log in page
Home page loads	Add comment	Comment posted appears
Homepage loads	Click profile	User's profile appears
Homepage loads	Click upload image icon	User's redirected to a page where they can upload an image
Homepage loads	Click settings icon	beside the profile user can change their password or logout
Homepage loads	User inputs in the search form and presses enter	Searched results show
A list of users displays	Click follow button to follow(currently not working)	Reloaded to the homepage

KNOWN BUGS

• Follow section is not working
• The app is still on development process

Setup/Installation requirements

1.Clone or download and unzip the repository from github

2. Activate virtual environment using python3 as default handler virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 venv && source venv/bin/activate

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

4. Create the Database

• psql
• CREATE DATABASE instaclone;

4. Create .env file and paste the following :

• SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key(any)>'
• DBNAME = 'instaclone'
• USER = ''
• PASSWORD = ''
• DEBUG = True

5. Run initial Migration

• python3 manage.py makemigrations instagram
• python3 manage.py migrate

6. Run the app

• python3 manage.py runserver
• Open terminal on localhost:8000

or run using the Markfile

• make migrations
• make migrate
• make serve

7. Running test

• Python manage.py test

Technologies Used

• PYTHON 3
• DJANGO FRAMEWORK
• BOOTSTRAP
• CSS
• POSTGRESS

Prerequisite

• PYTHON 3
• DJANGO FRAMEWORK
• PYTHON VIRTULENV
• POSTGRESS

Support and contact details

contact me @ [email protected]

License

The project is underMIT license Copyright © 2020.All rigths reserved