Social Network

Social-Network is a simple social networking application with features like posting photos, adding likes and comments (much like facebook).
It's currently titled 'Instabook' (yes, that's combination of Instagram and Facebook, as I couldn't come up with some creative title), though open to suggestions!

Technology Stack

• Bootstrap: HTML, CSS and JS Library for styling web pages
• JavaScript: Adding interactivity to web pages
• Python: Primary Programming Language
• Django: Backend Framework

Requirements

• Python --version >= 3
• Pip3

Installation

Steps

• Clone the forked repository in your local system.
  git clone https://github.com/<username>/Social-Network
cd Social-Network
  Make sure you are inside Social-Network directory before proceeding with following steps.

• Create a virtual environment and start it by running
  python3 -m venv myvenv
source myvenv/bin/activate

• Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install the project dependencies.

• Setup database by running commands
  python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

• Start the web server by running python manage.py runserver
  Now, open your web browser and enter http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the website up and running.

References

Resources to learn Django:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/
https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en

Bootstrap Documentation:
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/getting-started/introduction/\

Django Crispy Forms
https://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html\

Python Imaging Library-Pillow
https://pypi.org/project/Pillow/2.2.2/\

Other useful links:
https://github.com/revsys/django-friendship\