This is a clone of the famous instagram app.Users can sign up login, view and post photos and folllow other users.

1. Register and Sign in to the application.
2. Upload my pictures to the application.
3. See my profile with all my pictures.
4. Follow other users and see their pictures on my timeline.
5. Like a picture and leave a comment on it.

• User authentication with email confirmation.
• Public user profiles.
• Uploading photos to the site
• following and follow feature features.
• Photo feed displaying photos of users that the signed in user follows.
• Commenting on images.
• Search functionality for users.
• User profile where the user views only his/her photos.
• Django admin dashboard for adding & managing posts and user accounts

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

• Python3
• Pip

git clone https://github.com/mzazakeith/instagram-clone.git && cd instagram-clone

Create a virtual environment and activate it

python3 -m virtualenv virtual

source virtual/bin/activate

Install all requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file

set all environment variables to development

set the allowed hosts to localhost

add your database infromation i.e

• DB_NAME= #database name
• DB_USER= #database user
• DB_PASSWORD=#database password
• DB_HOST="127.0.0.1"

Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

Start the server

python manage.py runserver

Deployment was done using heroku.

• Keith Mzaza - Github

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details