SocNet

Social network built with Django Framework.

Features

• Multi-language (currently English and Russian). Selected based on browser settings.
• Light and dark theme support with a switch. The browser theme is selected by default.
• Infinite scrolling.
• Progressive Web App (PWA) support.

Regular users

• Register and confirm their account by email
• Sign in
• Add backup email addresses in case they lose access to the primary address
• Reset and change their password
• Use two-factor authentication with time-based one-time passwords (TOTP)
• Provide information about themselves in their profile
• Write real-time messages with Markdown and HTML support to other users using WebSockets
• Create, edit, like and delete posts and comments with Markdown and HTML support
• View images in posts, comments and messages as a gallery using viewerjs
• Subscribe to other users to see their posts in their news feed
• Inexact search for posts by text
• Inexact search for messages by text
• Inexact search for users by selectable fields
• Delete their account
• And a lot of other little things

Administrators

• All of the above
• Use Django admin panel
• Receive error notifications in Sentry or by email

Installation

Install Docker Compose.

Configuration

Copy the .env.example file to .env. Set the settings you need in the .env file.

Development

# Pull service images
docker compose pull --ignore-buildable
# Build services
docker compose build --pull
# Run DB migrations
docker compose run --rm django python3 manage.py migrate
# Create a superuser if you want
docker compose run --rm django python3 manage.py createsuperuser
# Compile translations
docker compose run --rm django python3 manage.py compilemessages --locale en --locale ru

# Run without debugpy
docker compose up --remove-orphans
# Or run with debugpy
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.override.yaml -f compose.debug.yaml up --remove-orphans

Production

To run this in production, you need to specify the production settings in .env.

# Pull service images
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.prod.yaml pull --ignore-buildable
# Build services
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.prod.yaml build --pull
# Run DB migrations
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.prod.yaml run --rm django python3 manage.py migrate
# Create a superuser if you want
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.prod.yaml run --rm django python3 manage.py createsuperuser
# Run
docker compose -f compose.yaml -f compose.prod.yaml up -d --remove-orphans

Tech Stack

Containerization

• Docker
• Docker Compose

Backend

• Python 3.13
• Django 5.1
• django-allauth
• django-bootstrap5
• django-cleanup
• django-environ
• django-filter
• django-logentry-admin
• django-ninja
• channels
• channels-redis
• sentry-sdk
• websockets

Markdown parsing, HTML minification and sanitization, and a few other things are implemented in Rust in the socnet_rs package using the following libraries:

• ammonia
• minify-html
• pulldown-cmark
• pyo3

Databases

• PostgreSQL 17 for persistent data
• Valkey 8 (FOSS Redis fork) for cache and as a layer for Channels

Frontend

• HTML with Django Template language
• HTMX 2
• Bootstrap CSS 5.x
• Font Awesome 6
• TypeScript (compiled and minified with esbuild)
• viewerjs
• luxon

Web servers

• Caddy
• gunicorn
• uvicorn

Testing

• pytest
• factory-boy

Linting

• mypy
• ruff
• eslint
• stylelint

DB schema

License

MIT