Building a Full-Stack Social Media Platform with React, Django REST Framework & PostgreSQL
Building projects from tutorials is useful, but the real learning starts when you have to connect multiple systems together and make them behave like one application.
That was the idea behind Pulse, a full-stack social media platform I built using React, Django REST Framework and PostgreSQL.
The goal wasn't just to create a social media UI. I wanted to understand what happens behind the interface — authentication, API design, database communication, media storage, token management and deployment.
I wanted Pulse to support the core functionality you'd expect from a modern social platform:
