Live Site: Pixelgram
Pixelgram is inspired by Instagram, one of the most influential social media platforms in the world. Users in this clone can share photos, follow other users, and like and comment on images.
Built with ...
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Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on the backend
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HTML, CSS, ReactJS/Redux and jQuery on the frontend
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Photo Upload
- Users can share their photos online with captions
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User Follows
- Users can follow other users and curate their feeds to only have people they're interested in
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User Explore
- Users can explore other users' posts and find new people to follow
The comments section was one of the biggest challenges I've faced while working on this project. After refactoring the comments section, there was no way for me to distinguish the html elements for styling, until I interpolated a passed in prop stating, where the comments were coming from into the className for the html elements.
While users can use the explore function to find new posts to like, a search bar would be great in tandem with tags to supply users with exactly what they'd like with the fewest key strokes.