A social media API that manages user account creation with access tokens, post creation, update, and deletion, as well as upvotes and downvotes. Built with FastAPI and powered by a Postgres database.
Read the docs here
- Navigate into your desired folder, then clone this repo as shown, remember the dot (.) so as to avoid duplicating this repo's name again.
git clone https://github.com/Dev-Elie/Social-Media-App-API.git .
- Change to that specific directory
cd directory path
- Install the requirements from the requirements.txt file.
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Create a
.envfile in the root of the directory then add the following contents, adding values for each depending on your configs.
DATABASE_HOSTNAME=
DATABASE_PORT=
DATABASE_PASSWORD=
DATABASE_NAME=
DATABASE_USERNAME=
SECRET_KEY=
ALGORITHM=HS256
ACCESS_TOKEN_EXPIRE_MINUTES=
- Run a database migration
alembic upgrade head
- Start the server
uvicorn app.main:app --reload