Instagram Clone

This Instagram clone project is built using the Laravel framework and incorporates several technologies and tools to provide a robust and feature-rich application. Technologies Used Laravel: A powerful PHP framework for building web applications. Leveraged for its MVC architecture, routing system, ORM (Eloquent), and Blade templating engine. Laravel Breeze: A lightweight starter kit for Laravel authentication, providing simple authentication scaffolding using Blade views and Tailwind CSS. Bootstrap: Front-end framework for responsive and mobile-first design. Tailwind CSS: Used in conjunction with Laravel Breeze for styling the authentication views and components. MySQL: Database management system for storing user data, posts, likes, comments, and other application data. JavaScript: Used for client-side interactions, form validation, AJAX requests, and dynamic content loading. Cloudinary: Cloud-based image and video management platform used for image uploads, storage, transformations, and delivery. Main Features User Authentication: Leveraged Laravel Breeze for quick setup of user authentication features. Customized authentication views using Tailwind CSS and Blade templates. Image and video Posting: Utilized Cloudinary for cloud-based image and video storage, transformations, and delivery. Implemented Intervention Image for additional image processing tasks within the application. Interactions: Enabled users to like and comment on posts using AJAX requests for seamless interactions. Implemented real-time notifications using Pusher Channels for immediate feedback. User Profiles: Developed user profile pages with customizable avatars, bios, and posts listing. Implemented followers/following and blocking functionality for social connections. Feed and Explore: Personalized feed based on followed users' posts, utilizing Laravel's Eloquent ORM for efficient data retrieval. Explore page to discover new users and trending content, implemented with dynamic content loading. Adding hashtag functionality for organizing and categorizing posts. Enhancing search functionality for users and posts using Laravel Scout for full-text search capabilities.