Django-Forum

Basic forum web application made with Django

Development set-up

git clone https://github.com/johnhh2/django-forum.git

Virtual environment

Install:

cd django-forum
virtualenv -p python3.6 venv/

Activate:

source venv/bin/activate

Dependencies

Back-end dependencies

Once in the virtual environment, download the poetry package manager

sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools pip
pip install poetry

If this fails, try installing these dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev
pip install poetry

Next, use poetry to download the project dependencies

poetry install

Front-end dependencies

npm install

Set up database

python manage.py makemigrations forumapp
python manage.py migrate

Run the test server

python manage.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000

Access the test server

Use a browser to go to 127.0.0.1:8000

Easy shell access

A simple python program written to help run forum-related commands in a manage.py shell

$ python manage.py shell
>>> from imports import *