INSTAGRAM CLONE

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Description

This is a clone of the image sharing network, Instagram. Users can sign up login, view and post photos and follow other users.

Author

Xavier Kibet

User Stories

1. Register and Sign in to the application.
2. Upload my pictures to the application.
3. See my profile with all my pictures.
4. Follow other users and see their pictures on my timeline.
5. Like or Save a picture and leave a comment on it.

Setup and installation

Clone the Repo

git clone https://github.com/reivhax/Not-Instagram 
cd Not-Instagram

Activate virtual environment

create and acvite a virtual environment python3.6 -m venv virtual && source virtual/bin/activate

Install dependancies

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

Create the Database

- psql
- CREATE DATABASE instaclone;

.env file

Create .env file and paste paste the following filling where appropriate:

SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key>'
DBNAME = 'instaclone'
USER = '<Username>'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
DEBUG = True

Run initial Migration

python3.6 manage.py makemigrations instaclone
python3.6 manage.py migrate

Run the app

python3.6 manage.py runserver

Technologies Used

• Python 3.6 and The Django framework
• HTML, CSS and Bootstrap
• JavaScript
• Heroku

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details