To setup the project you just need to create a new virtual environment and install requirements.txt using pip
#setup:
#make venv
virtualenv venv3 --python=python3
#start venv
. ./venv3/bin/activate.fish
#install requirments
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# setup db, create backend
python manage.py migrate
#run the website example, see output for where to browse to
python manage.py runserver