leaflet - open source social media platform

Leaflet is a tiny but powerful open-source social networking platform made with Node.js and MongoDB

Deployed on an Amazon EC2 instance here

Features

• Sign in using local authentication or using your Instagram account.
• Search for your other users.
• All feeds divided into 3 categories -
  • thoughts (tweets)
  • events (location can be specified)
  • moments (personal post)
• Like and comment on a feed.
• View your/others profile.
• Follow a particular user and get notified for his/her activities.
• Change your profile picture, bio, people who follow you etc.
• Chat one-one or create a room/group.
• Some extras (games) And a lot more to be added soon...

Requirements

• Node.js
  • expressjs ExpressJS HTTP middleware
  • ejs Embedded JavaScript templates
• MongoDB

Installation

Clone the repo locally then install all the dependencies using NPM

$ git clone https://github.com/DivySrivastava/leaflet
$ cd leaflet
$ npm i

Usage

First start the MongoDB server

$ mongod

and then start the leaflet server with nodejs

$ npm start

To know

leaflet uses mongoose as an ORM for performing CRUD operations on MongoDB and express.js for server-side HTTP routing.

This project needs contributors!!

Authors

• Divy Srivastava

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2019 Divy Srivastava [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.