Django Social Network

A social media web-application with Django.

Features :

Sign Up, Login, OAuth 2.0(Google, Github), Logout, Forgot Password

Public Profile view

Create, Edit, Delete Posts with customized text, pictures and links

Like, Comment / Reply, Save and Search posts

Follow and Unfollow users to view their posts

Friend Request

Notifications

Chats using websockets

Video Calls

Installation

Ensure you're running Python 3.11+

Adding env variables

• Add env variables to ".test.env" and rename it to ".env"

• Add GOOGLE_RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY to both .env and the file mentioned below https://github.com/Ronik22/Django_Social_Network_App/blob/main/users/templates/users/register.html#L45

• Add agora app_id to .env and to https://github.com/Ronik22/Django_Social_Network_App/blob/main/blog/static/blog/js/streams.js#L2

Add django-allauth config

https://django-allauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#post-installation

Run commands to stand up the server

    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool libffi-dev pkg-config python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-testresources
    $ python -m venv venv
    $ source venv/bin/activate
    (venv) pip install -r requirements.txt
    (venv) python manage.py makemigrations
    (venv) python manage.py migrate
    (venv) python manage.py createsuperuser
    (venv) python manage.py collectstatic
    (venv) python manage.py runserver

Accessory instructions

• To use other DB edit this settings.py#L107
• To use other providers edit this settings.py#L205
• To use redis instead edit this settings.py#L197

Running Tests

To run tests, run the following command

  python manage.py test

Deploy to Heroku

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python

https://realpython.com/django-hosting-on-heroku/