Notagram - Instagram Clone

Preview images taken on 12/05/21

This is not a social media competitor.

To test my skills as a front-end developer, I began to create a working clone of a popular social media site (in this case, Instagram) from scratch. This clone utilizes Firebase as the back-end and is being made with React.JS.

View the site here!!

Current Features

• Personalized accounts
  • Account creation with email/password
    • Anonymous accounts optional
  • Users can personalize account via Settings. Elements that can be changed are:
    • Display name
    • Profile image
    • Email address
    • Password
• Post creation. Users are able to:
  • Upload an image directly from their device
  • Create a custom message
  • Post image/message to the site for all to view
• User profiles displaying posts they've created
• Individual pages for each post
• Interaction with posts
  • Users can 'like' posts
  • Users can add messages to post
  • Users can delete their own posts
• Modal featuring all posts 'liked' by the logged in user
• Search features with user names and posts

Upcoming Features

• TBD

Possible Future Features

• Users can send private messages to each other
• Users can friend/follow each other
• Users can use 'explore' feature to find random posts