djangotwitter

Twitter recreated using the Django web framework

Introduction

The intent of this project was to recreate a well known social media application (i.e. Twitter) using the Django framework.

Technologies

• asgiref==3.4.0
• certifi==2021.5.30
• cffi==1.14.5
• chardet==4.0.0
• cryptography==3.4.7
• defusedxml==0.7.1
• Django==3.2.4
• django-allauth==0.44.0
• django-crispy-forms==1.12.0
• idna==2.10
• oauthlib==3.1.1
• psycopg2==2.9.1
• pycparser==2.20
• PyJWT==2.1.0
• python3-openid==3.2.0
• pytz==2021.1
• requests==2.25.1
• requests-oauthlib==1.3.0
• sqlparse==0.4.1
• typing-extensions==3.10.0.0
• urllib3==1.26.6

Launch

• Clone the repository to your local machine
• Create a virtual environment inside your new project folder
• Start your virtual environment
• Install all dependencies form the requirements.txt file
• Ensure the site_id in setting.py is set to 2 for your local machine
• For Google Authentication...
  • Tutorial for using Google login with Django
  • Add your google login information via the admin portal or in settings.py
• Run python manage.py runserver to start the application

Features

• Login can be accessed by creating an account or using Google OAuth 2.0
• Core Twitter features such as tweeting, commenting, and re-tweeting

Future Improvements

• Like functionality
• Enhanches profile including profile picture, basic info, etc.
• Posts featuring media