INSTAGRAM CLONE

This is a Python web application using Django framework and Postgresql, 2019

By mainamurage

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Description

This is a minimal imitation of the popular social network Instagram's web version of the app.It mimics the following/follower system, image uploads and liking and unliking images.

Prerequisites

Python3.6 POSGRESQL

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

• Clone the repo into your local machine

git clone https://github.com/MainaMurage/instagram-clone.git

• cd into the instagram clone folder

cd instagram-clone

• create a virtual environment to run django in and activate it

python3.6 -m venv --without-pip virtual && source virtual/bin/activate

• get pip to install dependencies with

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

• install all requirements from requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

• prefered database is POSTGRESQL
• create a .env file in the root of the app and specify the environment variables required in the settings.py file
• run migrations

python manage.py migrate

• initiate the server

python manage.py runserver

Deployment

To get more on deployement look up Heroku Deployment

Built With

• Django - The web framework used
• Python - Dependency Management

Versioning

We use Heroku for versioning.

Authors

• mainamurage email:[email protected]

License

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