Installation

Installing Backend

Checkout the code from our git repository

git clone [email protected]:StackTipsLab/bloggy.git

Create a virtual env

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

Install python dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Rename the .env.example file to .env and provide all te configurations details including Database, Email Configurations. Bare minimum, you will need these properties to get started.

SECRET_KEY=
DEBUG=True
ALLOWED_HOSTS=127.0.0.1,localhost
DEVELOPMENT_MODE=True

# Your database configuration details
DB_NAME=bloggy
DB_USER=root
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306

Create and apply database migrations

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate

Create superuser

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

Collect static files before publishing or development.

python3 manage.py collectstatic

Start the application

python3 manage.py runserver

Building Frontend

For building frontend code, you will need the following node version.

node -v
  v12.22.12
  
npm -v      
  6.14.16  

Once you have the above node version installed, install node dependencies using the following command.

npm install

Now, you can build

npm run start
npm run build # to generate production build