JSerwatka / CS50-Network

CS50s Web Programming with Python and JavaScript: Project 4 - Network

CS50 - Network project

Table of contents

• Introduction
  • Description and requirements
  • Versions
  • Installation
  • Preview
    • Edit your profile
    • Add posts
    • Add comments
    • Add likes
    • Edit a comment or a post
    • Delete a comment or a post
    • Follow
    • View profile
    • Change language
• Implementation
  • Models
    • User Profile
    • Post
    • Comment
    • Like
    • Following
  • Views
    • index
    • post_comment
    • user_profile
    • edit_profile
    • like
    • following
    • follow_unfollow
    • login_view
    • logout_view
    • register
  • Tests

Introduction

Description and requirements

Using Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, complete the implementation of a social network that allows users to make posts, follow other users, and like posts.

All requirements can be viewed here: https://cs50.harvard.edu/web/2020/projects/4/network/

Live version can be viewed here: https://cs-50-network.herokuapp.com/ (it might take a second to load 😉)

You must be registered to use options such as commenting, profile picture, following and so on.

Versions

On this repository you can find 2 versions of this project:

1. master branch: allows file uploads for user profile
2. live-server-version branch: uses img url istead of file upload to avoid using s3 buckets for demonstration

Installation

To set up this project on your computer:

1. Clone the project
2. Install all necessary dependencies

       pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Make a migration

       python manage.py migrate

Preview

Edit your profile

Add posts

Add comments

Add likes

Edit a comment or a post

Delete a comment or a post

Follow

View profile

Change language

Implementation

Models

User Profile

Contains User Model extension with additional fields.

Fields:

• name - user's name
• date_of_birth - user's birth date
• about - additional info about the user
• country - user's birth place
• image - user's profile photo

Post

Contains all post info.

Fields:

• user - who posted the post
• content - post's inner text
• date - post's publication date

Comment

Contains all comment info.

Fields:

• user - who posted the comment
• post - the post which is being commented
• content - comment's inner text
• date - comment's publication date

Like

Contains all like info.

Fields:

• user - who liked a post/comment
• post - the post which has been liked
• comment - the comment which has been liked
• emoji_type - the emoji used as a like, available emojis:
  1. like
  2. dislike
  3. smile
  4. heart
  5. thanks

Following

Contains all who follows who info.

Fields:

• user - user who is following
• user_followed - user who is being followed

Views

index

Here you can:

• View all posts
• Edit posts (if you are the post's creator; only for logged-in users)
• Delete posts (if you are the post's creator; only for logged-in users)
• Like them (only for logged-in users)
• Create a new post (only for logged-in users)
• View all comments (only for logged-in users)
• Create a comment (only for logged-in users)
• Delete a comment (if you are the comment's creator; only for logged-in users)
• Edit a comment (if you are the comment's creator; only for logged-in users)

post_comment

(only for logged-in users)

Controls saving of a new post/comment (only POST method allowed).

user_profile

(only for logged-in users)

Here you can:

• View user's bio
• View all user's posts
• Edit posts (if you are the post's creator)
• Delete posts (if you are the post's creator)
• Like them
• View all comments on user's posts
• Create a comment
• Delete a comment (if you are the comment's creator)
• Edit a comment (if you are the comment's creator)
• Follow the user (if you are not this user)
• Click on edit profile button (if you are this user)

edit_profile

(only for logged-in users)

Here you can:

• Change your name
• Change your birthdate
• Change your about info
• Change your profile picture
• Change your country

like

(only for logged-in users)

Controls all actions regarding liking:

• Add a new like
• Change a like's emoji

following

(only for logged-in users)

Here you can:

• View all posts created by followed users
• Like them
• View all comments
• Create a comment
• Delete a comment (if you are the comment's creator)
• Edit a comment (if you are the comment's creator)

follow_unfollow

(only for logged-in users)

Controls following/unfollowing users (only POST method allowed).

login_view

Controls logging in.

logout_view

Controls logging out.

register

Controls registration.

Tests

There are 4 main test cases:

• ModelsTestCase - checks database integrity
• FormsTestCase - makes sure that forms work correctly
• ViewsTestCase - makes sure that all views work correctly and give proper responses
• FrontEndTestCase - uses Selenium to simulate user interaction with every element on the page

Test requirements can be viewed in test requirents.md

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