The objective here was to create a simple 'Insta-inspired' full-stack app using Python, Flask, and PostgresQL. The styling is plain, and there will be future improvements and features implemented, however, it was a tremendously fulfilling and fun project to complete after only having coded for four months or so (I say this humbly, as I know there are people who have achieved far more in a much shorter time frame). I opted to create a simple CRUD 'api' that handles the back-end operations, detailed specifically below. For now, these 'api' routes can just be found in app.py.
A video demonstration of the app's core features can be seen here: https://youtu.be/cKbKgxXR3iA.
The site is deployed at https://insta-clone-mpc.herokuapp.com/.
To run the app locally, create a virtual environment, and run pip install -r requirements.txt. In your terminal, type 'flask run.'
During this project, I had weekly mentoring calls with Christos Gkoros, a software engineer located in Athens, Greece. His patient manner and years of wisdom as a software architect were invaluable to my learning. Four test accounts haved been created, johndoe, janedoe, lisadoe, and markdoe, all with the password 'password.'
-A user can login, and they will shown a 'feed' of posts from accounts they follow that have been made within the last 7 days. -New users may sign up -A user can view other user accounts, either by clicking on the account name in the header of a given post in their feed, or by navigating to them directly '/user/.' -A user can follow or unfollow other users, and these following/followers totals are shown in individual user pages, and affect what is seen in the home feed for a given user. -A user can click and get a detailed list of the followers and followings of a given account, viewable from that account's detail page. -Users can like posts, and click a button see a list of all the users that have liked that post. Posts can be unliked by the same user after they have been liked. -Similar to the post workflow, users can make comments on posts, delete those comments (if they are the orignal commentor), like/unlike comments, and see a list of all users who have liked a given comment. -Users can delete any of their own posts, and also delete their own account. -If a user is not logged in, they can still view posts and account detail pages, but they cannot carry out activities that are tied to a user (ie they cannot post, like posts, comment, etc).