Robosocial is a minimal social media application for sharing images, following your friends and having some fun.

• Upload Images: Share your moments with your friends.
• Follow and Engage with your friends: Keep in touch with your friends by liking, commenting and engaging with their posts.
• Explore: Explore and find new friends.

• React.js: Frontend development
• Node.js and Express.js: Backend developement
• Firebase: Utilized for file storage and frontend deployment
• Vercel: Backend deployment

To run this project locally, follow these steps:

• Node.js installed
• Firebase account for file storage setup
• Postgresql database

1. Clone the repository.

   git clone https://github.com/therealrinku/robosocial.git
   

2. Install the dependencies on both client and backend folders respectively.

   yarn install
   

3. Get your firebase app config and add to firebase.js file in client folder

4. Get your postgresql db setup and connection string(I got it from elephantSQL.com) and add it to .env file(name is DB_URL) in backend folder.

5. Run the backend/database/createTables.js script in the backend/database directory for creating the required database tables(posts, users, notifications and comments)

      node createTables.js
   

6. Run the backend from backend folder

   node server.js
   

7. Run the frontend.

   yarn start