# yTakkar/React-Instagram-Clone-2.0

A reactive Single-Page Instagram-Clone with some new features!! 💪📸👓 - No longer maintained.

Repository: https://github.com/yTakkar/React-Instagram-Clone-2.0
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-instagram-clone-20
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: mern-stack, react, redux, nodejs, expressjs, social-network, messaging, instagram, instagram-clone
Last push: 2024-07-17T04:02:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3129, "days_push": 777, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1015, forks 474 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:14.101776+00:00)

## What it is
A single-page Instagram clone built with the MERN-style stack (React, Redux, Node.js, Express) plus MySQL, featuring photo sharing, filters, hashtags, mentions, messaging, and an admin system. The project is no longer maintained but remains functional.

## Use cases
- build an instagram clone
- learn a full-stack react social network app
- photo sharing app with filters and hashtags
- example of react redux with express and mysql
- social media app with direct messaging
- starter code for a social network project

## When to choose
- you want a working reference implementation of an Instagram-like social app
- you're learning MERN-stack patterns with a real project
- you need a demo of photo feeds, hashtags, mentions, and messaging in React

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained or production-ready codebase
- you want modern React practices or up-to-date dependencies
- you need the story feature or performance optimizations, which were never completed

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, web-framework, state-management, http-server, search-engine
- domain: web-development, frontend, social-media, media
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: instagram-clone, mern-stack, react, redux, express, mysql, single-page-app, social-network, photo-sharing, messaging, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- yTakkar/React-Instagram-Clone-2.0 (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.101776+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:11:29.483605+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yTakkar/React-Instagram-Clone-2.0 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:14.101776+00:00, sha 3a8f271aa139)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.