Tweeter - Twitter with Django

A mini Twitter App - built with Django.

Screenshots

Login & Registration Page

Tweeter timeline of Phoebe (logged in)

View Tweets Across the Globe

Features

• Login using Django Authentication.
• Signup to create a user.
• Logged in user can post a tweet. (140 char limit).
• Logged in user can see the timeline of tweets created by them.
• Logged in user can see tweets from other users
  • Example: To see joey's timeline, go to localhost:8000/joey
• Logged in user can see the tweets across the globe.

For Developers

Installation Instructions

• Run following commands after cloning the repository

# Go inside the directory containing the project
cd twitter-django

# Create virtual environment
virtualenv env

# Activate the virtualenv
source env/bin/activate

# Install requirements/libraries
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Go inside the 'tweeter' directory and run migrations
cd tweeter
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Run the App

• In order to run the app, run following command and open localhost:8000 in the browser once the development server has started.

python manage.py runserver