How to Create an Instagram Clone using React?

Nowadays, everything revolves around social media, and Instagram is one of them. So if anyone wants to practice any programming language, they must practice it by creating Projects that can help them increase their knowledge about the language. 

In this article on the Instagram clone, we will see how to create a clone using react and how to deploy different modules of react. Also, we will be using react router dom and material UI.

React is a JavaScript library that is used to build mobile and web applications fast and interactive. It is an open-source, reusable component-based front-end library of JavaScript. React is a  combination of HTML and JavaScript. It provides a robust and opinionated way to build modern applications.

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Steps to Create an Instagram Clone Using React

• Step 1: First, we need to create a React Project. For that, we need to write a command npx create-react-app Instagram-clone

• Step 2: After Creating an empty project, we will run our project in the terminal and write the command “npm start”

Now let's add a module for that write a command “npm install @material-ui/core”

After that, let's create the login page for our application now, we will be divided the page into 3 parts ” 3,6,3 “ 

First we will add the image, then we will create the login part of Instagram, and all the work will be done in the center grid.

• Step 3: Now, inside our src folder, create a folder component because we will be  using many components in our project, so to make it look clean we are using components.

Inside the components let's create the LoginPage folder and inside that, create two files, LoginPage.js and LoginPage.css.

In the Js file, we will write all our react code, and in the CSS file, we will do the styling.

Fig: LoginPage.js

Fig: LoginPage.css

Fig: Output

To add these files we need to add this to App.js 

• Step 4: After creating the login page we have to add the signIn page and signup page 

Fig:SigIN.js

Now lets create another folder SignUp and inside that create a js file. So when the user clicks on SignUp it will redirect to the SignUp page.

Fig: SignUp.js

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• Step 5: After completing the Instagram login page we will now move to the main page. Lets first create the navbar for the main page 

For that lets create a folder NavBar inside that again js and css file 

Fig: NavBar.js

Fig: NavBar.css

Fig: MainPage.js

Fig: MainPage.css

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• Step 6:  Now we will create the folder post

Inside that we will create 2 file post.css and post.css

In the post.js file in post container, we will create 4 parts first the header of the post ,

Then the picture and the like comment button and then the comments.

Fig: Post.js

Fig: Post.css

• Step 7: In last we will work on the info and suggestion box 

We have added a few comments in the code also for better understanding of the structure.

Fig: Suggestions.js

Fig: Suggestions.css

Fig: InfoSection.js

Fig: InfoSection.css

Fig: Output

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