lazyche / devsearch

Devsearch is a platform for programmers to share their projects.

Devsearch

The platform for programmers to share their projects.

Table of contents

• Live Demo
• General Info
• Functionality
• Technologies
• Setup
• Resources

Live Demo

https://alinocco-devsearch.herokuapp.com

General Info

The users can

1. Share their projects
2. Give feedback on others' works
3. Contact to each other
4. Search for projects/programmers

Functionality

• Basic Django Overview
• Database Design and Models
• CRUD
• Static Files
• Connect Frontend Files and UIkit
• User Registration & Authentification
• Search
• Pagination
• Send a Welcome Email
• Reset Password via Email
• API on Django Rest Framework
• Deployment

Plans

• Forum based on Python Django 7 Hour Course by Dennis Ivy
• Video Streaming Room based on Building A Video Chat Application by Dennis Ivy

Technologies

The project is written on Python: 3.8/Django: 4.0 with implementation of:

• Poetry: 1.1.12 - virtual environment and dependencies' manager
• Pillow: 9.1.1 - Python library for processing images
• Whitenoise: 6.2.0 - Serve our static files
• Django-Cleanup: 6.0.0 - Remove unused images, files etc.
• Django Rest Framework: 3.13.1 - Bulding REST API
• Django Rest Framework Simple JWT: 5.2.0 - JSON Web Tokens
• Django CORS Headers: 3.13.0 - Resolving Cross-origin resource sharing
• Django-environ: 0.9.0 - Hide environment variables in .env
• Psycopg2: 2.9.3 - Connect our app to PosgreSQL Database
• Gunicorn: 20.1.0 - Deploy on server
• Django-heroku: 0.3.1 - Deploy on Heroku

Setup

1. Clone the repository by

   git clone https://github.com/alinocco/devsearch.git
   

2. Go to project folder

   cd devsearch
   

3. Install poetry

   pip install poetry
   

4. Activate virtual environment

   poetry shell
   

5. Migrate all project migrations

   python manage.py migrate
   

6. Run project

   python manage.py runserver
   

Resources

The project is done following Full Django Course by Dennis Ivy with some new changes and features.

Updates:

• poetry instead of virtualenv
• work with Git and Github
• troubleshoot issues with error messages

While watching the lectures, I was taking notes(click to follow).