c-grigsby/rooster-frontend

Client-side app for Rooster, a social networking site for the CCU community

Rooster Frontend

This client-side application is the frontend for Rooster, a social networking site for the Coastal Carolina University (CCU) community 👌

Demo

A live demo of the app can be found at www.roostersocial.com

Home Page	Profile Page

Create Post	Friends Page

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Project Specifications

• Developed with React
• Users required to have a valid @coastal.edu email address
• Create and share posts/images with friends & followers
• Post reactions, comments, save, download
• Customizable profile page
• Friend request, friend/unfriend, follow/unfollow
• Search & Search History for other users
• Signup and Login Process
• Account Verification
• Password Reset
• Dark Mode On/Off
• Redux to assit with state management
• Deployed to Netlify
• Backend API communication for data persistence, retrieval, authentication & authorization services

Getting Started

To install dependencies:

npm install

To run in development mode:

npm start

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

To build the app for production to the build folder:

 npm run build

Environment Variables

This application utilizes dotenv to host environment variables. For local utilization configure the following:

• REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL
• REACT_APP_DEFAULT_FRIEND_ID

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To contribute please visit us at Rooster