Features
- Registration with Email confirmation (uses mailtrap currently, can be replaced with sendgrid or equivalent service.)
- Logged In user can create posts, the post editor supports Markdown
- Live search for posts
- Profile shows users your are following and users who follow you
- Follow other users
- Home page feed shows posts from your followed users
- A chat room
Technologies used
- Node/express as backend server
- MongoDB as database
- Mongoose as ODM
- EJS templating engine
- SocketIO for chat functionality
To run locally replace values in the sample.env with actual values and rename the file to .env. Additionally run npm install in the root directory.