Welcome to IncognitoNet, a social media platform that provides a safe space for users to express their thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment or scrutiny from real-life acquaintances. This platform is designed to foster authentic communication, facilitate meaningful connections, and create a community where users can feel free to be themselves.

One of the unique features of IncognitoNet is the random nickname assigned to each user when they share a post. This feature ensures that users can share their posts anonymously and without the fear of being identified by their friends or families in real life. By giving users the ability to post without revealing their identities, IncognitoNet provides a safe and secure platform for users to share their thoughts and feelings, and create meaningful connections with others.

• Please make sure you have node installed on your device.
• You also need to have a relational database, either on your local machine or on the cloud.
• Authentication of this project is based on AWS Cognito, therefore you will also need to create a Cognito User Pool

• Open a terminal and direct into moment-share-service
• Run npm i or yarn
• Change the name of file .env.example to .env, and add the configuration of your Cognito User Pool and database
• Run npm run migration:generate or yarn run migration:generate
• Run npm run migration:run or yarn run migration:run
• Once finished, run npm run start:dev or yarn run start:dev to start the service
• Useful links:
  • GraphQL Playground: http://localhost:8000/graphql
  • Swagger API Doc: http://localhost:8000/api

• Open a terminal and direct into social-media-app
• Run npm i or yarn
• Change the name of file .env.example to .env, and add the configuration of your Cognito User Pool. You can ignore REACT_APP_PRISMIC_REPO_NAME as it is not used
• Once finished, run npm run start or yarn run start to start the service. The application is on http://localhost:3000
• Alternatively, run npm run storybook or yarn run storybook to start the story book. The storybook is on http://localhost:6006

IncognitoNet is a social media platform that uses cutting-edge technologies to provide users with a fast, reliable, and secure experience. The app is built using React and TypeScript on the front end, Nest and TypeScript on the back end, GraphQL for seamless communication between the client and server, AWS S3 for image storage, AWS Cognito for user authentication, and TypeORM for (PostgreSQL) database integration.