• ⚛️ Tech Stack: React.js, MongoDB, Node.js, Express, Tailwind
• 🔐 Authentication with JSONWEBTOKENS (JWT)
• 🔥 React Query for Data Fetching, Caching, etc.
• 👥 Suggested Users to Follow
• ✍️ Creating Posts
• 🗑️ Deleting Posts
• 💬 Commenting on Posts
• ❤️ Liking Posts
• 🔒 Delete Posts (if you are the owner)
• 📝 Edit Profile Info
• 🖼️ Edit Cover Image and Profile Image
• 📷 Image Uploads using Cloudinary
• 🔔 Send Notifications
• 🌐 Deployment
• ⏳ And much more!

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository_url>
   cd blip-social-media-app

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Create a .env file in the root directory with the following environment variables:

   MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_uri
   PORT=8080
   JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
   NODE_ENV=development
   CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your_cloudinary_cloud_name
   CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your_cloudinary_api_key
   CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your_cloudinary_api_secret

To build the app for production:

npm run build

To start the app:

npm start