Email Client

This is an email client that makes API calls to send and receive emails built using Django 4, HTML 5, CSS 3, Bootstrap 5 with a Bootswatch theme, and vanilla JavaScript.

Table of Contents

• Prerequisites
• Installation
• Run the application
• Run the tests
• View the application
• Note
• Copyright and License

Prerequisites

Install the following prerequisites:

1. Python 3.8-3.11
   This project uses Django v4.2.4. For Django to work, you must install a correct version of Python on your machine. More information here.
2. Visual Studio Code

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment

From the root directory, run:

python -m venv venv

2. Activate the virtual environment

From the root directory, run:

On macOS:

source venv/bin/activate

On Windows:

venv\scripts\activate

3. Install required dependencies

From the root directory, run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run migrations

From the root directory, run:

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Run the application

From the root directory, run:

python manage.py runserver

Run the tests

From the root directory, run:

python manage.py test --pattern="tests.py"

View the application

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to view the application.

Note

Just remember to send an email to an email address that already exists in the database.

Copyright and License

Copyright © 2022 Bob's Programming Academy. Code released under the MIT license.