kl-instagram

The application is a Stateful app built with Spring Boot, MySQL and Vue.js.

Features:

• Routing
• User authentication: Register/Login/Logout
• 3 User Roles: Root, Admin and User
• Promoting/Demoting users to Admin/User
• Deleting users
• Editing user profile
• Following/Unfollowing users
• Creating posts
• Creating comments
• Liking posts

Requirements

1. Java 11

2. In order to be able to save Images you need to sign up to Cloudinary and enter your credentials in the application.properties file of the Spring Boot app (instagram\server\src\main\resources\application.properties)

Start the app

Option 1 - Start the Client and the Server manually

1. Start the Client

To start the Client you need to enter the instagram/client folder:

$ cd instagram/client

Install all dependencies:

$ npm install

Run the app in the development mode:

$ npm run serve

Open http://localhost:8080 to view it in the browser.

2. Start the Server

Go to the root directory of the Spring Boot app:

$ cd instagram/server

Start the Server:

$ mvn spring-boot:run

The Server is running on port 8000.

Option 2 - Start the application in Docker

1. Start the application

Go to the project directory( instagram/ ) and run:

$ docker-compose up -d

The front-end server will start on port 9090. To open it enter in your browser:

$ http://localhost:9090

2. Stop the application

You can stop the containers with:

$ docker-compose down

App screenshots

1. Home Page

2. People Page

3. User Feed Page

4. Post Page