Twitter-esque social networking site.

This was my first project using React, Redux, and Django Rest Framework. This was a great learning experience, with many obstacles I had to overcome.

If you come across this and see something I could have done better, I am completely open to suggestions. Do not hesitate to create a pull request, or open an issue.

• Django / Django Rest Framework
• PostgreSQL
• Parcel
• React
• Redux

• Posts: Post, post reply, repost, post like.
• Following/Followers
• Profiles
• Basic settings
• Notifications: Currently uses polling, sockets would be better.
• Search
• Recommended users/posts: Does not use any special algorithm. Recommended posts are the latest posts of users who you are not following. Recommended users are users you are not following.

git clone https://github.com/onosendi/social.git

Create an .env file in the root directory (next to requirements.txt) with the following content:

SECRET_KEY='super secret key'
ALLOWED_HOSTS='localhost;*'
DATABASE_NAME='social'
DATABASE_USER='social'
DATABASE_PASSWORD='social'

Create a database, user, and grant user superuser permissions. Superuser permissions have to be granted in order to use Django's CITextExtension.

In a PostgreSQL shell (sudo -u postgres psql), issue the following commands:

postgres=# create database social;
postgres=# create user social with encrypted password 'social';
postgres=# grant all privileges on database social to social;
postgres=# alter user social with superuser;

npm install

npm run build

For development, use npm start

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install wheel
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

python3 social/manage.py migrate

python3 social/manage.py runserver

Then in your browser, visit localhost:8000 and register a new user.