firebase-instagram
A tutorial app that clones Instagram using React Native, Expo and Firebase. It shows how to build a photo sharing app with login, camera and database.
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Overview
firebase-instagram is a tutorial app that clones Instagram using React Native, Expo and the web Firebase SDK, with Cloud Firestore as the database. It shows how to build a photo sharing mobile app with login, camera and storage features. A written tutorial is linked from the README. To try it, you clone the repository, run yarn to install libraries and start it with expo start.
Key features
- Instagram style photo sharing app in React Native
- Uses Expo and the web Firebase SDK
- Cloud Firestore for data, with auth, camera and storage topics
- Companion tutorial linked in the README
Best for
Developers learning to build a social app with Expo and Firebase. It is a teaching example, not a production ready product.
- Upstream
- EvanBacon/firebase-instagram
- Fork on GitHub
- Guo-astro/firebase-instagram
- Upstream stars
- 443
- Category
- Apps and everyday utilities
- Language
- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Forked
- 2018-08-24
- Sync status
- In syncLast synced 2026-09-29
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