Social-Network

Social-Network is a Stateful app built with Spring Boot, MySQL and React.

Features:

• Routing
• User authentication: Register/Login/Logout
• 3 User Roles: Root, Admin and User
• Promoting/Demoting users to Admin/User
• Creating and deleting users
• Editing user profile
• Searching for friends
• Sending and accepting friend requests
• Removing friends from the friends list
• Adding and deleting photos
• Creating and deleting posts
• Creating and deleting comments
• Chat functionality: writing and receiving messages from your friends
• Logs history

The project is deployed on Heroku.

Admin Credentials:

• username: john
• password: 1111

Requirements

1. Java 11

2. In order to be able to save Photos you need to sign up to Cloudinary and enter your credentials in the application.properties file of the Spring Boot app (SocialNetwork\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 SocialNetwork/Client folder:

$ cd SocialNetwork/Client

Install all dependencies:

$ npm install

Run the app in the development mode:

$ npm start

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

2. Start the Server

Go to the root directory of the Spring Boot app:

$ cd SocialNetwork/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( SocialNetwork/ ) 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. Friends Page

3. Photos Page