An open source social media that does not use your data against you

Recently I was getting a lot into System Design and scalability stuff so I thought about implementing the classic social media.

Hence, I decided to design and implement Proximity an open-source social media as a hobby project in my free time.

I decided to open source it because newcomers to React Native might find it helpful

PS. UI is Heavily inspired by Instagram as I'm not a designer 🤪, The code is not perfect but I'm still improving it 😄

Please leave a ⭐ as motivation if you liked the idea 😄

Built and maintained with 🌮 by Karan

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• Home Feed 📰
• Explore Feed 📜
• Messaging 💬
• User Search 🔍
• Post Upload 🌄
• Push Notifications 🔥
• Password less signin 😄
• Dark Mode 🌒
• Block users 🙅
• Report post 🚩
• Stories (coming soon) TBD

📎 Notes: I used this Boilerplate which is also maintained by me, it is very scalable, try it out for your next project 😄

Also, If you're interested in how I implemented the system design then feel free to reach out to me on twitter or instagram (i'm most active on twitter).

🏭 Architecture:

For GraphQL schema please take a look at app/graphql/schema/schema.graphql

First of all, you need to register an code push account for update latest change of your application:

• Install code-push-cli

npm i -g code-push-cli

• Register account

code-push register

then register with Github or Microsoft account

• Code push login, this will open up the browser and generate an access key for you

code-push login

then enter your key to terminal

• Register your app with ios platform

code-push app add <your_app_name> ios react-native

Then the key for Staging and Production will show on your terminal

• Register your app with android platform

code-push app add <your_app_name> android react-native
The key will show on your terminal also

• Define Staging and Production keys in index.ts file for both ios and android

To run the project just use the following

• Android

yarn && yarn android

• iOS

yarn && yarn cocoapods && yarn ios

Note: It is recommended to use yarn if you want to run this project as npm skips few dependencies. I am not sure why but this reported by many developers and fixed when they switched to yarn.

But if the issue persists feel free to open an issue and I'll assist you with running the app.

Want to contribute to this project? Contributions are now open for bug fixes.

• See LICENSE