Mobile template
Social Media App template
A social networking app with user profiles, post feed, likes, comments, follow system, and real-time notifications. Available as web and native mobile.
What's included
What gets generated
The feed is the hard part. Like and comment counts are kept on the post rather than counted per render, because counting them is what makes a social app slow at exactly the moment it starts working. Push notifications go through your own backend to Expo's service, so the device tokens are yours.
The data model
- users with profile, avatar and a privacy setting
- posts with media, edited-at and soft delete
- follows as a directed edge, which is what makes the feed query possible
- likes and comments, with counts denormalised onto the post because reading them on every feed render does not scale
- notifications with a read flag and a device token for push
The screens
- Feed, with pull-to-refresh and pagination
- Profile with posts, follower and following counts
- Compose with image upload and captions
- Notifications, backed by real push
- Search for people and posts
All of it is generated as source code — React or React Native, Python and SQL — in a repository, with migrations, so the schema above is a starting point you can change rather than a fixed structure you have to work around.
How to use this template
Start from this prompt
The Social Media App prompt below is the starting point — edit it first if any of "What to change first" applies to you.
Generate the whole stack
Appifex writes the React Native and Expo pieces together with the database and the deploy, not just the interface.
Ship it
Your app is deployed and running, and the repository is in your GitHub account.
What to change first
The feed ranking. It ships chronological, which is correct to start and rarely what you keep. Ranking is a query change plus the counters already on the post, so it is cheap now and expensive once the feed is cached.
What this template does not include
No moderation tooling, no reporting flow and no block list — a social product needs all three before it has strangers on it, and none are assumed. No direct messages, and no media transcoding.
Ask for any of it in the same prompt — the template is a starting point, not a fixed product.
Sample prompt
"Build a social media app with user profiles, a scrollable post feed, likes, comments, follow/unfollow, and real-time notifications"
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About the Social Media App template
What does the Social Media App template include?
A social networking app with user profiles, post feed, likes, comments, follow system, and real-time notifications. Available as web and native mobile. It is generated as a complete project rather than a starting skeleton: user profiles, post feed, likes and comments, follow system, and more. The stack is React Native, Expo, FastAPI and PostgreSQL, and the whole thing lands in a GitHub repository you own.
Can I change the Social Media App template after generating it?
Yes, in two ways. You can describe the change in plain language and Appifex regenerates the relevant code, or you can open the repository and edit it directly — it is ordinary React Native, Expo, FastAPI and PostgreSQL with no proprietary runtime or shim to work around. Most people start with the template and diverge from it immediately.
Does the Social Media App template work on iOS and Android?
Yes. It is generated as React Native through Expo, so a single codebase produces both the iOS and Android apps, with cloud builds and guided store submission.