Convo is a social media web app designed to connect people through seamless interactions and a user-friendly interface. The aim was to maintain reactivity and a clean, minimal aesthetic while providing a wide feature set.

• React and Chakra UI for the frontend.
• Django and Postgres for the backend.
• Django Rest Framework was used to roll up most of the API and auth.
• Django Channels and the browser Websocket API to enable real-time messaging communication

• Users can create profiles and update their profile pictures.
• Users can share images, and like and comment on others images.
• Users can search for other users, view their statistics and posts.
• Users can message other users in real-time.
• Users can follow others to see their posts in their feed.

Clone the repository and navigate into the directory.

git clone [email protected]:abi-sheks/convo.git
cd convo

Navigate to the frontend directory and install all dependencies. npm is required to run the frontend.

cd frontend
npm install

Run the development server on http://localhost:3000

npm start

python and pip are required to further run the backend Navigate to the backend directory, create a virtual environment and activate it. (Note : python3 invokes the interpreter on Linux systems, commmand may be different for Windows) (Install the venv package if you don't have it using pip install

cd backend
python3 -m venv <venv-name>
source ./<venv-name>/bin/activate

(Source is being used assuming a Unix system, on Windows, the bin directory will contain a activate.bat file to be run.)

Install the dependencies for the project using the requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup the .env file in the backend directory using the .env.example. Local postgres database should do, but a cloud provider like Aiven or Render is recommended.

After setting up the .env file, run the necessary migrations and create a superuser

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py createsuperuser

Run the server on http://localhost:8000

python3 manage.py runserver