An instagram clone made using Laravel + React that enables users to follow one another, like posts and comment on other users posts. It tries to mimic basic functionalities of Instagram and at the moment, messages,notifications and delete posts have not yet been implemented.

Lennox Omondi

• MDBootstrap
• Ant Design
• React Router Dom
• Read Redux
• Redux Persist
• Axios
• ...see package.json for more

As a user of the application I should be able to:

• Sign in to the application to start using.
• Upload my pictures to the application.
• See my profile with all my pictures.
• Follow other users and see their pictures on my timeline.
• Like a picture and leave a comment on it.

PHP >= 7.3
BCMath PHP Extension
Ctype PHP Extension
Fileinfo PHP Extension
JSON PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

• git init and run git remote add origin [email protected]:lenomosh/insagram.git if you are using SSH or https://github.com/lenomosh/instagram.git
• From the project directory run composer install && yarn
• Configure the .env file and change the following

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 #
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=<your database name>
DB_USERNAME=><database username>
DB_PASSWORD=<database password>

• run php artisan key:generate and php artisan migrate
• You should be able to start your app by running php artisan serve

This is an open-source project that is licenced under the MIT license.