README.md

Fake Social - Decentralized Social Media

Fake Social is a peer to peer timeline service, similar to the centralized versions: Twitter, Facebook, etc.

See the App in action in our demo!

There's also a presentation with more implementation details here.

Setup

There are 3 services in our system: Bootstrap Nodes, node backend, and node frontend, located in the designated files inside src.

To run each one, simply run the following commands inside each repository:

npm install

npm start

To work properly, the system should contain bootstrap nodes running before initializing the normal nodes. Each node is composed of a backend and a frontend service, that should be properly connected through the .env or package.json files directly.

Structure

Backend (src/backend)

Peers of the application, accompanied by a REST API so it can communicate with the frontend.

Frontend (src/frontend)

Interface of the application, where the user can interact with a node.

Bootstrap (src/bootstrap)

Nodes that are responsible for the initial connection of the network and for helping nodes discovering new peers.

Screenshot

Group members:

1. Bruno Rosendo (up201906334@fe.up.pt)
2. Henrique Nunes (up201906852@fe.up.pt)
3. João Mesquita (up201906682@fe.up.pt)
4. Rui Alves (up201905853@fe.up.pt)