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Birdie

A social networking application with django and react. A fully functioning social media application that allows users to post content, view content like and comment on content, follow and unfollow users. Also supports dark and light theme modes.

You can find a live demo of the app at https://birdie.netlify.app

Demo

Birdie.Demo.Video.mp4

Tools

  • Python
  • Django and Django rest framework
  • Javascript
  • React
  • React router
  • Tailwind css
  • Material ui and Material ui icons

Setting up locally

  • Clone the project to your local computer using git via command git clone https://github.com/ogayanfe/birdie.git. You can simply download the zip folder and unzip if you don't have git installed.
  • cd into the application folder using your terminal.
  • cd into the backend direcory via the command cd backend.
  • You can create and activate a virtual environment here.
  • cd into the backend directory and run the command python3 install -r requirments.txt or python install -r requirements.txt on windows to install requirements.
  • Run the command python3 manage.py migrate or python manage.py migrate on windows to load the database.
  • Run the command python3 manage.py runserver or python manage.py runserver on windows to start the django development server.
  • Go back into the root folder of the repo and cd into the frontend then the react directory via cd frontend/birdie
  • Run the command npm install to install requirements
  • Run the command npm start to start the react development server.
  • Navigate to the url localhost:3000 on your browser

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