There are a lot of tutorials about building clones of popular web apps but most of them are short and don't cover very many features.
We just released a massive 12-hour course that will show you how to create your own version of Instagram. This course is a lot more comprehensive than most other courses on creating web app clones.
Karl Hadwen developed this course. Karl has created many popular courses that are on his own channel and the freeCodeCamp.org channel.
The project you will create in this course uses React (including custom hooks, useContext, useState, useEffect, & useRef), Firebase, Tailwind CSS, LoadTest, Lighthouse, Vercel, React Testing Library, and Cypress E2E Testing.
You will learn to create multiple pages, including a login page, a sign up page, a dashboard (to view/like/comment on photos), and user profiles. The sign-in page will connect to Firebase when a user tries to sign in. When a user signs up, the app uses Firebase auth to store the user in the Firebase auth database.
You will even learn how to fully deploy the app using Vercel.
Here are all the sections in this comprehensive course:
- Introduction
- Showcase
- Create React App (yarn)
- Project Folder Structure
- Installing Dependencies
- Refactoring unnecessary files, refactoring code
- Install ESLint
- Creating Folder Structure & Architecture
- Setup Firebase
- Firestore
- Firestore Rules
- Firestore (Collections & Docs)
- Firebase Authentication
- Realtime Database (Explanation)
- createContext in firebase.js
- Creating App in Firebase
- Start working on Login Page
- Install React Router Dom
- Create Routes
- Continue working on Login Page (Part 2)
- Tailwind.css Introduction
- Continue working on Login Page (Part 3)
- Install more dependencies
- Change how all scripts work
- yarn add postcss -D
- Create components folder
- Tailwind.css setup
- Completed Tailwind Setup, Continue working on Login Page (Part 4)
- Interjection: Field Value
- Continue working on Login Page
- Tailwind.config
- Login Functionality (with Firebase)
- Signup Page
- Check for user created is a duplicate
- Not Found & Dashboard Page
- Created Timeline Component
- Created Sidebar Component
- Created Header Component
- use-auth-listener.js Hook
- users.js UserContext
- Back to Header Component
- Working on Dashboard Page
- Working on Sidebar Component
- use-user.js hook
- In user.js ⇒ Introduction to prop types
- Created Timeline.js
- Explanation on useMemo
- Add WhyDidYouRender
- Struggling with some issues
- Finally Figuring out some problems with WhyDidYouRender
- Working on suggestion.js (sidebar completed)
- Get suggested profiles
- Functionality: Remove followed user from suggestion
- Functionality: Update user’s following & followers
- Overview on Timeline
- Creating Post Component
- Creating more custom hooks (usePhotos)
- Rendering out the photos (using React skeleton)
- Start work on Post Component
- Components within Post
- Header Component
- Image & Actions
- Service call in Firebase
- Show Comments
- Add Comments
- Adding Protected Routes
- Profile
- Lazy load explanation
- Continue working on Profile Page
- Header Component in Profile Page
- Profile Specific Header
- Get User Photos
- Continue working on header
- Information in header
- Photos Component in Profile Page
- Recap of everything we’ve done
- Start of Review
- Not found header
- Review of usePhotos, useUsers, isUserLoggedIn, ProtectedRoute
- Review of contexts: firebase.js and user.js
- Review of Routes & Posts
- loadtest (Npm install -g loadtest)
- Create a production build
- Deployment to Vercel done but with issues
- Issues fixed
- Lighthouse
- Wrapping up
- Changes and Refactoring (Fixing Bugs)
- Quick Look at Paid Version
- Cypress
- Signing Off
Watch the full course below or on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel (12-hour watch).