Social Media Site

• This is a social media platform built with Django and Django Rest Framework (DRF). The application allows users to create accounts, create and edit their profiles, follow and unfollow other users, add posts and view posts and like or comment on the post.

Installation and Setup

• Clone this repository

  git clone https://github.com/manishkrojha0/social_media_site.git

• Navigate to the project directory

  cd social_media_site

• Create a new virtual environment:

  python -m venv venv

• Install project dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run the migrations file by command

  python manage.py migrate

• Run the application

  python manage.py runserver
  

Test cases

• test cases to test the urls and endpoints of the project.

  python manage.py test core.test_cases
  

Docker

• A Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml file have been provided for easy deployment. To deploy the application using Docker, follow these steps:

  • Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/manishkrojha0/social_media_site.git

  • Navigate to the project directory

    cd social_media_site

  • Run this command for creating the Docker image.

    docker build -t social_media_platform .

  • Run this commant to build the multiple Docker images if you want.

       docker-compose build       

  • Run this command to start the Docker container

       docker-compose up

  • Run the Docker container:

       docker run -p 8000:8000 social_media_platform

  • Access the application at http://localhost:8000

Deployment

• Deployment has been done on render, link to my deployed url - https://minsta-ymk1.onrender.com/admin
• You have to go through the postman api collections, I've mentioned below.

API Endpoints

• POSTMAN API COLLECTIONS - social_media_site