kannanoo7 / final

# PostIt PostIt is a fully-featured social media web application, built with the MERN stack. Deployed at: https://post-it-heroku.herokuapp.com/  ## Features - Create, read, update and delete posts - Like and unlike posts - Create, reply to, read, update and delete nested comments - Markdown for posts and comments - Sign up and login using JWT for authentication - Private message users in real-time using socket.io - View profiles of users and browse through their posts, liked posts and comments - Infinite scrolling - Sort posts by attributes such as like count, comment count and date created - Profanity filtering and posting/commenting cooldowns - Update bio which can be viewed by other users - Search for posts by their title - Fully responsive layout ## Installation and usage 1) Clone this repository ``` git clone https://github.com/ihtasham42/social-media-app.git ``` 2) Install dependencies ``` cd social-media-app npm install cd client npm install ``` 3) Create .env in root directory ``` cd .. touch .env ``` 4) Configure environment variables in your new .env file. To acquire your MONGO_URI, create a cluster for free over at https://www.mongodb.com/. The TOKEN_KEY is a secret key of your choosing, you can generate one at this site: https://randomkeygen.com/. ``` MONGO_URI= TOKEN_KEY= PORT=4000 ``` 5) Run the server ``` npm run server ``` 6) Start a new terminal and run react's development server ``` cd social-media-app cd client npm start ``` ## Screenshots ### Explore view  ### Post view  ### Nested comments  ### Profile view  ### Real-time private messenger  ### Search view  # s # s