Basically, a test project to brush up on my skills and compare various performances, primarily MySQL and server combination vs Firebase Realtime DB/Cloudstore , and hopefully Flask vs NodeJs/React combination in future

The Flask app needs a few configurations to run locally :

• Use pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a new project at the Firebase console. Note down the credentials and save the credentials file
• Use set FLASK_APP=application.py (Windows) and export FLASK_APP=application.py (Linux/MAC)
• Likewise, use set/export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<path-to-credentials-file> as might be necessary.

More instructions coming soon!

• Signup/Login with hashed password
• Uploading images with image preview, text and description
• Viewing all uploaded images
• Global feed to see images from other users
• Users can delete images and modify image descriptions

• Follow users and generate a custom feed out of them
• Favourite images and save them locally
• Hashtag/Title based search
• Revamping the UI (primarily introduce load on scroll)
• Reduce network requirements by loading in phases
• Use a caching layer (Memcached/Redis)
• Write a robust configuration file so that user doesn't need to manually configure the FireBase project
• Deploy on Heroku

I don't have much up right now, so have a look at the error page with the classic CS50 (The course which sparked my interest in Web Development) cat 😄