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Posted by Shane May
Shane May
5,114 Points

Building a Social Media Site

Hello, am building a social media site with my friends. I know HTML, CSS, and JS, but I am not sure what else I need to learn. Does anyone here know the courses I should take to make a social media site? additional info(the social media site is very basic. Main functions needed are; login, sign up, post to page, find friends, and comment on post)

Mir Ali
Mir Ali
3,175 Points

I learned how to make apps on mobile and tablets.If you need help email me @ zahedmiralirh@gmail.com

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

You're off to a good start, but you'll need to learn some sort of server side language, and database skills so you can store data. There is not a "right" language to do this in. There is also not a "right" framework to use either.

If you look in the Ruby library, they have 2-3 courses on building a social media site called Treebook, a simple Facebook clone using the Rails framework.

The Python library also has a course on building a social media site with Flask. And let's not forget PHP, which could also be used with or without the popular framework Laravel.

Oh yeah, and now there are fancy Server side JavaScript langues too, like Node.js which could also be used. I'd spend a little bit of time in each of these, and see which on you like best, and then go with that.

Joel Hernandez
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Joel Hernandez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,571 Points
Joel Hernandez
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Joel Hernandez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,571 Points

To piggy back on Kevin's (great) answer, I would suggest you look into PHP if you are building a basic site. It is flexible and would go well with the languages you already are familiar with.