README.md

Social-Media

This is social media site I built from scratch using Django Backend Framework, HTML and CSS. Its a practice project I built after learning Django framework.

Technologies Used

1. Python 3.7.4
2. Django
3. HTML
4. CSS (Bootstrap)
5. JQuery (for navbar dropdown)

Challenges and Learning

• Understanding django framework and workspace.
• Using django_taggit.
• Creating Accounts applications.
• Handling duplicate username during signup.
• Handling duplicate emails during signup.
• Authenticating and Authorizing user actions.
• Making login compulsary for certain actions.
• Creating user following and followers system.
• Suggesting users to follow from unfollowed users.
• Preventing users from following/unfollowing themselves.
• Creating system for draft posts.
• Allowing users to publish posts only when they want it.
• Allowing users to edit their posts.
• Preventing users from editing other users' posts.

How to Use

1. Clone the repository.
2. Run: pip install requirements.txt
3. Run: py manage.py runserver.
4. Go to: http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.
5. Enjoy.

Features (remaining) to add:

1. P2P Chats
2. Group chats
3. Google, Outlook, Facebook direct API signup
4. Algo to suggest people based other followers
5. Cool fontend
6. Merging similar topics