pavanananthsharma/instagram-ethereum-clone

This is a blockchain based Instagram(a social media platform) clone, powered by smart-contracts and Ethereum, this project is written in solidity, JS majorly.

Instagram-like D-App

Editors: Pavan Ananth Sharma & Darren Smith Michel

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A simple Ethereum-based Instagram-like decentralized application (dapp) where you can post images, text, and view it but here the catch is, the whole process and functionality is powered by smart contracts

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This repository is used in this Medium article:

https://medium.com/@gdmerida.bit/https-medium-com-creating-an-instagram-like-dapp-with-ipfs-cc4fac85cbfe

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Prerequisites

• Node - v10.x.x (preferrably v10.15.0 for long term support)
• npm - v6.x.x (preferrably v6.6.0)

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Running It Locally

Clone this repo via to your local machine and install the dependencies by doing the following:

git clone [email protected]:openberry-ac/instagram.git
cd instagram
npm install

Serve the application with hot reload in a development environment via:

npm run dev

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Boilerplate

If it is only the boilerplate that you want to clone, do it via:

git clone [email protected]:openberry-ac/instagram.git --branch boilerplate --single-branch

And then do the same following commands as shown above for starting the application, you should be all set by then.

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Built With

• Solidity - Ethereum's smart contract programming language
• Vue.js - The Javascript framework used
• web3.js - Javascript library used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain
• IPFS - InterPlanetary File System for peer-to-peer decentralized data storage.

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Conclusio

Lets hope you enjoyed this code as well as the partially good tutorial, if so then do consider following here on GitHub and also on instagram

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