Welcome to our Social Media Website, a dynamic social networking platform developed using Django and React. This application allows users to interact with each other in a variety of ways, similar to popular social media platforms.
The Social Media Website is designed with a focus on user interaction. It offers features such as creating an account, posting messages, following other users, and viewing posts from followed users. The application is built using Django, a high-level Python web framework that enables rapid development of secure and maintainable websites, and React, a powerful JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
The backend of the application is handled by Django, which takes care of user authentication, data management, and server-side logic. Django's "batteries included" philosophy provides almost everything developers might want to do "out of the box", making it a robust choice for the backend of our application.
The front end of the application is built using React. With its component-based architecture, React allows us to create a highly interactive and responsive user interface. By handling the view layer of our application, React ensures a seamless user experience.
- User Registration and Authentication: Users can create a new account and log in to the application. Django's built-in authentication system is used to handle user registration and authentication.
- Posting Messages: Users can post messages which will be visible to all their followers.
- Following Users: Users can follow other users. Once a user follows another user, they will be able to see their posts.
- Viewing Posts: The posts are displayed in a feed format.
- Viewing Users: Users can see user profiles. This project is a great opportunity to learn and understand how a full-fledged social media website works, and how React and Django can be used together to build powerful web applications
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
List what software and versions are needed to run your project and how to install them.
- Python 3.8
- Django 3.2.5
- Node.js 14.17.0
- React 17.0.2
Provide a step-by-step guide on how to get a development environment running. This will likely include cloning the repository, installing dependencies, and setting up a database.
- Clone this repository to your local machine using
git clone https://github.com/seyed0123/OXDgram.git. - Navigate to the project directory with
cd OXDgram. - Install the JavaScript dependencies with
npm install. - Migrate the database using
python manage.py migrate.
Explain how to start your application. For a Django and React application, this might involve running the Django server and the React development server.
- Start the Django server with
python manage.py runserver. - In a new terminal window, navigate to the frontend directory with
cd frontend. - Start the React development server with
npm start.
Run the tests using python manage.py test.
Built With
List the major frameworks and libraries that you used to build your application.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file
