Social Media App

A simple social media project app made with Flutter wrapped in simple and beautiful design.

Stack

• Flutter as front end

• Node.js as backend server

• PostgreSQL as database

• Firebase as authentication medium and cloud storage for videos

• Appwrite as cloud storage for images

• Custom class as primary state management

Setting up Firebase

• Create a Firebase project and then create a Firebase app

• Initialize authentication by enabling email and password authentication

• Initialize cloud storage by setting up Firebase Storage and allowing permissions

• Download the google-services.json file from the app and move it to the android/app/ directory

• Add the package flutterfire_cli to your project then run flutterfire configure

• Select your project and android option then firebase_options.dart file will be created. Move it to the lib/firebase folder.

Setting up PostgreSQL

You need to have basic knowledge of PostgreSQL and have PostgreSQL installed. It's also recommended to have pgAdmin 4 installed as well. Whole code is in here. Each file contains code for each database, from creating schemas, tables to functions.

Setting up Express.ts

You can download it here. Run npm run build if you modified any Typescript code, and run npm start to start or restart the server.

Once you have set up all of these the app is ready to use.

Features

• Skeleton loading

• Sign up and login

• Email verification during sign up

• Uploading posts and comments

• Uploading images and videos

• Tagging other users and hashtags

• Deleting posts and comments

• Editing posts and comments

• Liking posts and comments

• Bookmarking posts and comments

• Viewing comments of a post or a comment

• Search posts and users

• Lock account / set as private

• Mute other users

• Block other users

• Notifications

• Private message

• Group message

• Edit group profile

• Add other users to group

• Auto login

Basic preview of the application

Things to fix and improve

• Database still cannot handle 1 million rows yet

• Adding more options of files to upload such as audio and PDF

• Adding push notifications

• Fix the nested scrolling bug in the profile page

• Make improvements to cloud storage management