Social Network Project

This project was realized when finishing my schoolarship at IFOCOP school. The goal was to make a social network with some functionnalities listed below:

• Connexion and registration
• Members and administrators authorizations
• Administrator panel
• Publications on friends and own walls
• Discussions between firends

How to install this project?

Prerequisites

Install Node.js which includes Node Package Manager

Setting up this project

Clone this project. Enter into the project directory with cd social-network. The project is divided into 2 folders: sn-front for the front part and sn-server for the server part. For each folder, go into and type npm install to install all dependencies.

Build

In the sn-front directory, run ng build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the sn-front/dist/ directory.

In the sn-server directory, run npm run build to build the project. The build artifacts will be stored in the sn-server/dist/ directory.

Database

This project need a MongoDB database. See an exemple in config.json at the root directory.

Configuration

Create a configuration file named ./sn-server/src/config.ts with this content:

import { Secret } from "jsonwebtoken";

export const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3005;
export const mongoUri: "mongodb+srv://< login >:< password >@< mongDBuri >/social-network";

export const googleCredentials = {
  clientId: "",
  clientSecret: "",
  refresh_token: "",
  user: "",
};

export const site = {
  name: "Social Network",
};

export const secret: Secret = "";

Don't forget to replace login, password and mongoDBuri with your MongoDb credentials. Same for googleCredentials (or replace with other providers). Enter whatever secret pass you want.

Change if needed the server port here and in sn-front/src/environments/environment.prod.ts.

Execute server

Enter in server directory with cd sn-server/dist. Run node app.js. Naviguate to http://localhost:8095 or the port you provided in the config file.

Development

You can serve these applications for development purpose.

In sn-front directory, type ng serve, it will build and serve the application to a local server and watch any change for a live reload.

In sn-server directory, type npm run dev, it will build, serve the application and watch any change for a live reload.

Infos

This project uses Angular version 13.

The servers runs under node.js version 16.10.0, express version 4.17.1 and mongodb version 4.1.3.

All the project is written in typescript.