Instagram clone

Project screenshots

Login page	Signup page
Homepage	User profile page
Messages page	Messages screen on scroll

Overview

This is an Instagram clone that has most of the features available in Instagram. These features include:

• authentication - login, signup, logout
• follow/unfollow users
• Like/unlike posts
• comment on posts
• update user profile, user's post
• send and recieve messages
• recieve notifications

Technologies used:

• HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootsrap 5, htmx (front-end)
• Django (back-end)

User instructions

Users can view the website by clicking this link.

Developer instructions

Installation instructions

  # navigate to Desktop
  cd Desktop

  # git clone this repo
  git clone https://github.com/morikeli/instagram-clone.git

  # create a virtual environment
  python3 -m venv .ig-venv

  # activate virtual environment
  source .ig-venv/bin/activate    # On Windows use venv\Scripts\activate

  # install python packages
  pip install -r requirements.txt

  # run the development server
  python manage.py runserver

Once the server is running, open your default browser and navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000/auth/login/.

Known issues

Incase of an error or bug create an issue using the Issues tab or create a new branch using Git and make a pull request.

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