Project no4 for the CS50 Web Programming Course with Python and Javascript 2020.

Short presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E_QWRB6VD8

Try it at: https://poston.herokuapp.com

Technologies used:

• Backend: Python (Django framework)
• Front-end: HTML, CSS, JS (React framework) with npx create-react-app

A social media website (like Twitter, Facebook etc), where users can:

• create an account (or login)
• create their profile (with image and bio)
• upload/edit/delete posts (with image, video and/or text)
• react to posts (6 available reactions)
• upload/delete comments on posts
• like/unlike comments on posts
• follow/unfollow other users
• be followed by other users
• see their notifications
• see their activity
• have access to a statitics page (personal and/or general)

Users can connect their poston account to their instagram account and receive via instagram real time notifications with bots mentioning them in comments.

The bots operate using the python wrapper: Instagram Private Api

Users' media files are hosted at Cloudinary

More implementation details in backend/api_specs and front-end/README.md