PennConnect

PennConnect is a full-stack social network built from scratch. It was an attempt in collaboration with my teammates at using a graph database in combination with a conventional RDBMS to capture data and relationships between the users on the platform.

It supports the following functionalities:

• Sign in and Sign out sessions
• A user-specific news feed
• UI for profile, groups and events
• The ability to create, view, edit and delete comments
• Authentication for users
• Schedule events
• Create, view, edit and delete users, posts, events
• Friend and unfriend users
• Search for users, groups and events
• Upvote and downvote posts
• Analytics for administration

We used an Azure instance with a LAMP stack to deploy the web application. Just to make things more interesting, I used a dynamic DNS (DuckDNS) so that I could have a unique URL on the internet. The architecture is shown here:

Here are a few screenshots:

Login Page:

News Feed:

Analytics Page: