citoozz / shuup

shupp

Anders Innovations Django Challenge

An important note

This project is proprietary and private. This means you may not publish it on Github or elsewhere, or share it with your friends (no matter how good friends they are).

Task Description

This is a site that is very slow and not very usable.

Your task is to make it significantly faster and/or prettier and/or more usable while adhering to the specifications in specs.md.

• If you feel like you're more of a backend wizard, feel free to tackle the project on that end.
• If you feel like you're more of a frontend guru, feel free to do what you can there.
• If you feel like you're a full-stack rockstar developer, good for you! Do everything you can and be awesome.
• If you're a graphic designer, you're probably already confused with these instructions.

You can use whatever tools you want to tackle this problem. The application has django-debug-toolbar preinstalled.

A note on version history

If at all possible, please record the initial state of the repository (once unzipped) in a Git repository.

Record your changes -- in whichever logical increments make sense to you -- in the Git repository, and mail the completed Git repository back to us. (Git's bundle format is fine, as is just a zipped-up .git directory.)

It's also okay (though not quite as okay) to just send the final state.

Installation

Once unzipped, follow the installation guides below.

Installation in Windows

• Download and install Python. For this guide, we assume Python is installed in C:\Python36.
• Download the Pip (Python package installer) bootstrap script get-pip.py.
• In the command prompt, run C:\Python36\python.exe get-pip.py to install pip.
• In the command prompt, run C:\Python36\scripts\pip install virtualenv to install virtualenv.

Installation in Ubuntu

Python 3 is preinstalled in Ubuntu. Virtualenv and pip necessarily aren't, so:

• sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-pip

Creating and activating a virtualenv

Go to the project root directory and run:

Windows:

c:\location_of_project>c:\Python35\scripts\virtualenv --system-site-packages venv
c:\location_of_project>venv\Scripts\activate

Ubuntu:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 --system-site-packages venv
source venv/bin/activate

Starting the project

After activating the virtualenv do the following

cd app
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate --noinput
python manage.py datafeeder
python manage.py runserver

Now the test should be visible in the browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Returning the task

Once you think you're done with the task, zip/tar up what you have (excluding the venv directory -- we don't need that and you shouldn't have changed it in the first place) and send it back to us.

For version history, see "A note on version history" in this document.

Troubleshooting

• You may need to add your client IP address to the INTERNAL_IPS setting to use Django Debug Toolbar.
• If you have other problems getting the system running, send an email back to whoever sent you the zip and we'll try to help. :)