Social media application using MERN stack. Users can post, make friends and do chat with them.

• Verify email before using the app
• Real-time chat and feed updates
• Implement lazy loading
• Users can tag others in their post
• Hashtags can be used in post and also search posts based on hasshtags
• User can block others and deactivate own account - can't chat with them, can't see their posts, not even search them
• Share post on other platforms like facebook, whatsapp, linkedin
• Responsive design
• Light/dark mode toggle

Client: React, Redux Toolkit

Design: Styled-Components

Server: Node, Express

Database: MongoDB

Others: Socket-io

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/sp004/social-media-app.git

Go to the project directory

  cd social-media-app

Install client dependencies and start client app

  cd client
  npm install
  npm run dev

Install server dependencies and start server

  cd server
  npm install
  npm run dev