ConnectBharat---India-Social-Media

🇮🇳 India-Social-Media — A Full Stack Social Networking Platform

📦 Overview

India-Social-Media is a modern full-stack social networking platform inspired by apps like Twitter & Instagram.
It provides a space for users to connect, share, and interact with each other in real-time.

Users can:

Create accounts & manage profiles
Share posts (text, images, videos)
Follow/unfollow friends
Like, comment & engage with content
Chat in real-time with other users

Built with React (Frontend), Spring Boot (Backend), and PostgreSQL (Database).

✨ Features

👤 User Profiles – Create, edit, and personalize profiles
📝 Posts Feed – Share text, images, and short videos
❤️ Like & Comment System – Engage with community posts
🔔 Notifications – Stay updated with likes, follows & comments
👫 Follow/Unfollow – Build your own network
💬 Real-Time Chat – One-to-one messaging
🔐 JWT Authentication – Secure login & sessions
📱 Responsive UI – Works across desktop & mobile

⚙️ Tech Stack

Layer	Tools Used
Frontend	React.js, JavaScript, TailwindCSS, Axios
Backend	Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, JWT
Database	PostgreSQL / MySQL
Realtime	WebSocket / Socket.IO
Storage	Cloudinary / Firebase (media upload)
Tools	VS Code, Git, Docker, Postman

🗂️ Project Structure

  India-Social-Media/
├── client/ # React frontend
│ ├── components/ # UI Components
│ ├── pages/ # Routes
│ └── ...
├── server/ # Spring Boot backend
│ ├── controllers/ # REST APIs
│ ├── services/ # Business logic
│ ├── models/ # Entities
│ └── repositories/ # Database access
├── media-service/ # File/image upload service
└── README.md

📸 Screenshots (Coming Soon)

🏠 Home Feed
👤 User Profile Page
📝 Post Creation
💬 Chat Window

🤝 Contribute

I’m actively working on this project! If you want to help or join the development, you can join my Discord server and collaborate with me:

💬 Join Discord

We welcome contributions in frontend, backend, UI/UX, testing, and AI features.

🧠 Learnings & Goals

This project helps me:

Understand full-stack social media architecture
Build real-time chat features with WebSockets
Work with secure authentication & JWT
Implement media uploads & storage
Practice responsive UI with TailwindCSS
Learn scalable backend with Spring Boot & PostgreSQL