samskeller / my_site

A basic Django app for creating a personal website!

Personal website powered by Django

This is a personal website I built for myself that's powered by Django. Certainly you could do a lot of this without a full-fledged web framework like Django, but where's the fun in that?

Running locally

This project requires Python 3.6 or above and PostgreSQL

1. Register for an API Key from Google Books
2. Create a virtual environment with the right Python 3.6+ version: virtualenv --python <path_to_python> venv
3. Run pip install -r my_site/project_requirements.txt
4. Create an __init__.py in the my_site/settings/ directory and fill out like so:

from .local_dev import *

SECRET_KEY = <some_random_and_long_string>

DATABASES['default']['PASSWORD'] = <your_database_password>

GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY = <your_google_books_api_key>

1. Run the migrations: python manage.py migrate
2. Run the application: python manage.py runserver
3. Access the application at http://localhost:8000