A Social Media Application as Link-Loop

📋 Table of Contents

1. 🤖 Introduction
2. ⚙️ Tech Stack
3. 🔋 Features
4. 🤸 Quick Start
5. 📸 Screenshots

🤖 Introduction

Explore social media with this user-friendly platform that has a nice look and lots of features. Easily create and explore posts, and enjoy a strong authentication system and quick data fetching using React Query for a smooth user experience.

⚙️ Tech Stack

• React.js
• Appwrite
• React Query
• TypeScript
• Shadcn
• Tanstack-react-query
• Tailwind CSS

🔋 Features

👉 Authentication System: A robust authentication system ensuring security and user privacy

👉 Explore Page: Homepage for users to explore posts, with a featured section for top creators

👉 Like and Save Functionality: Enable users to like and save posts, with dedicated pages for managing liked and saved content

👉 Detailed Post Page: A detailed post page displaying content and related posts for an immersive user experience

👉 Profile Page: A user profile page showcasing liked posts and providing options to edit the profile

👉 Browse Other Users: Allow users to browse and explore other user's profiles and posts

👉 Create Post Page: Implement a user-friendly create post page with effortless file management, storage, and drag-drop feature

👉 Edit Post Functionality: Provide users with the ability to edit the content of their posts at any time

👉 Responsive UI with Bottom Bar: A responsive UI with a bottom bar, enhancing the mobile app feel for seamless navigation

👉 React Query Integration: Incorporate the React Query (Tanstack Query) data fetching library for, Auto caching to enhance performance, Parallel queries for efficient data retrieval, First-class Mutations, etc

👉 Backend as a Service (BaaS) - Appwrite: Utilize Appwrite as a Backend as a Service solution for streamlined backend development, offering features like authentication, database, file storage, and more

and many more, including code architecture and reusability

🤸 Quick Start

Follow these steps to set up the project locally on your machine.

Pre-requisites

Make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

• Git
• Node.js
• npm (Node Package Manager)

Cloning the Repository

git clone https://github.com/SohamRoy-01/Link-Loop.git
cd LinkLoop

Installation

Install the project dependencies using npm:

npm install

Set Up Environment Variables

Create a new file named .env in the root of your project and add the following content:

VITE_APPWRITE_URL=
VITE_APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID=
VITE_APPWRITE_DATABASE_ID=
VITE_APPWRITE_STORAGE_ID=
VITE_APPWRITE_USER_COLLECTION_ID=
VITE_APPWRITE_POST_COLLECTION_ID=
VITE_APPWRITE_SAVES_COLLECTION_ID=

Replace the placeholder values with your actual Appwrite credentials. You can obtain these credentials by signing up on the Appwrite website.

** For running the Project**

npm start

Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser to view the project.

📸 Screenshots

For Mobile Users:

For Laptop/Desktop Users: