🫂 Unilink Project - Social media platform

A full stack webapp for community building developed using Django. This can be used for boilerplate for building any community

This is a social media project that is developed using Django Framework as backend. Our main goal of this project was to build a platform to connect with other university students. This has similar funcionalities like other Social Media Platforms like Facebook.

🌐 Github repo

Here’s my 🌐blog article related to this project.

UniLink Project

Funcionalities available so far in the site :

  • User Signup
  • User Login/Logout
  • (Django Inbuilt user authentication)
  • Password Reset ( Using Twillio as a service )
  • News Feed similar to Facebook (not yet user oriented so far)
  • Make posts and edit them
  • User Authorization features

This is how to get started and customize it.

1) First, clone the repository.

    git clone https://github.com/SasikaA073/Social-blog

2) Then run this command to activate a python environment. After that activate the environment.

In linux,

    virtualenv --python=python3 ~/venv/MyVirtEnv
    source ~/venv/MyVirtEnv/bin/activate

In Windows,

    python -m venv "MyVirtEnv"
    source MyVirtEnv\Scripts\activate
        
If your Python virtual environment works fine, then in the command line should be something similar to this.



    (MyVirtEnv) C:\Users\Foo

3) Now you have to install the required python libraries. Then run this command.

    pip install -r requirements.txt

4) Now the last part!

    python manage.py runserver

Technologies Used

  • Python (Django framework)
  • SQLite (Database management system)

Credits

developed by: Sasika Amarasinghe Hasitha Gallella

Guidance by: Damsith Adikari Chamika Jayasinghe Yasaara Weerasinghe