Zoom

Simple photo gallery web application to showcase beautiful pictures and designs

June 8th, 2018

By Richard Waweru

Description

Zoom is a simple photo gallery web application to showcase beautiful pictures and designs. Users get to view photos updated by the site admin. Users can see photos based on the location, by clicking on the listed locations in the menu. They can also copy the link to a photo to paste at their discretion. The search functionality will search photos based on the categories.

Specifications

Get the specs here

Set Up and Installations

Prerequisites

1. Ubuntu Software
2. Python3.6
3. Postgres
4. python virtualenv

Clone the Repo

Run the following command on the terminal: git clone https://github.com/DevWaweru/Zoom.git && cd Zoom

Activate virtual environment

Activate virtual environment using python3.6 as default handler

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.6 venv && source venv/bin/activate

Install dependancies

Install dependancies that will create an environment for the app to run pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Create the Database

psql
CREATE DATABASE zoom;

.env file

Create .env file and paste paste the following filling where appropriate:

SECRET_KEY = '<Secret_key>'
DBNAME = 'zoom'
USER = '<Username>'
PASSWORD = '<password>'
DEBUG = True

Run initial Migration

python3.6 manage.py makemigrations album
python3.6 manage.py migrate

Run the app

python3.6 manage.py runserver

Open terminal on localhost:8000

Known bugs

Copy functionality does not work

Technologies used

- Python 3.6
- HTML
- Bootstrap 4
- JavaScript
- Heroku
- Postgresql

Support and contact details

Contact me on developer.waweru@gmail.com for any comments, reviews or advice.

License

Copyright (c) Richard Waweru