Series: Building a Social Network with Flask & Stream – Part 9

In the ninth installment of a tutorial series on building a full-stack application with Flask and Stream, the focus is on creating immersive social experiences through the implementation of follow relationships. This involves setting up user and collection follow systems, building a customized homepage timeline, and developing a notifications screen. The tutorial guides users through creating the necessary database tables and models to handle complex many-to-many follow relationships, as well as implementing methods to add, remove, and check these relationships. It also covers the establishment of endpoints for following and unfollowing users and collections, the creation of dynamic follow/unfollow buttons on user and collection pages, and the development of a user pagination system to facilitate user discovery. Additionally, the tutorial demonstrates setting up an infinite scroll feed on the homepage and a notification system to keep track of user activities. The article emphasizes testing new functionalities and preparing the groundwork for aesthetic improvements in upcoming installments.