https://ziwibook.netlify.app

👋 Hello, I'm Mohamed Zhioua. If you're looking to hire a dedicated, hardworking MERN stack developer, I would love to 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 and discuss opportunities for 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 or 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐛 opportunities 👨‍💼. Feel free to reach out to me via DM, and I look forward to connecting 🤝 with you.

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• LinkedIn
• instagram
• facebook

• 🔗 This is a simple Social App called ZiwiBook wich is a clone to the popular social media platform Facebook , built using the MERN stack.
• 🔗 For those who may not be familiar with the MERN stack, it refers to a combination of technologies used in web development, including React (a JavaScript framework for building single-page applications), Node (used as a backend for websites), Express (a framework for Node), and MongoDB (a popular database).

• 🔗 Official Site for MongoDB
• 🔗 Official Site for Express.js
• 🔗 Official Site for React.js
• 🔗 Official Site for Node.js
• 🔗 Redux Toolkit
• 🔗 MongooseJS
• 🔗 React Router v6 for routing
• 🔗 Official Sitefor Cloudinary
• 🔗 jsonwebtoken
• 🔗 cookie-parser
• 🔗 cors
• 🔗 express-rate-limiter

• 🔗 React Dev Tools Extension for Chrome
• 🔗 Redux Devtools

• 🔗 Light/dark mode toggle.
• 🔗 Redux-Toolkit/RTK Query as an advanced data-fetching and client-side caching tool
• 🔗 Skeleton loaders while pages are loading.
• 🔗 Using validator (server side) & yup (client side) to validate the User inputs
• 🔗 Strong authentication system, Register, login..
• 🔗 there is a implimentation for the routes protection in the front-end by the jwt and of course force redirect when the User logged in
• 🔗 there is a implimentation for routes protection in the backend attaching the user token to the cookies that will be attached to every request (and response) made between the client and server.
• 🔗 Using multer and sharp and cloudinary as middlewares to handle uploading files
• 🔗 the User has the ability to Creat/Update/Delete his own post .
• 🔗 the User has the ability to like any of his posts or friends posts .
• 🔗 the User has the ability to Creat/Update/Delete his own Comments/Replies.
• 🔗 the User has the ability to like any of his own Comments/Replies or any other User Comments/replies.
• 🔗 Friendship system with send, cancel ,accept friend requests.
• 🔗 Friends page.
• 🔗 Real time notifications.
• 🔗 Search functionality by email and Name.
• 🔗 Photo Gallery with old photos to change profile photo and cover.
• 🔗 Profile details and bio.
• 🔗 Fully responsive design with all devices using HTML/CSS mediaQuery/react-responsive

• Fork & Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/mohamedzhioua/ZIWIBook.git

• Cd into the directories & Install the dependencies (server /client)

npm install

• Create a .env file in the server side and store the following:

  • cloudinary :

  • CLOUD_NAME= ${CLOUD_NAME}

  • API_KEY = ${API_KEY}

  • API_SECRET =${API_SECRET}

  • app name :

  • APP_NAME =${APP_NAME}

  • mongodb cluster :

  • DATABASE = ${MongoDB_cluster_url}

  • DATABASE_PASSWORD =${DATABASE_PASSWORD}

  • auth :

  • ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET =${ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET}

• Start the (server /client)

npm run dev