DevFriends

A chatting app for developers, programmers and coders.

Features

• Explore different rooms and topics that people have creted and read the discussions in the rooms.
• Login/Signup to create your own rooms and chat with others in any room.
• Watch who posted what and where in the activities feed.
• Search by topics or rooms.
• See each other's profiles and a particular profile's activities and the rooms they created.
• Edit your profile and add avatars, email, bio etc to tell others about you.
• You can also lurk around without logging in.
• Call APIs to collect some data.

About

This website is a platform for developers to chat and discuss everything about programming. It is created using Django along with some other python libraries. It was hosted on AWS initially but later it was moved to pythonanywhere.

API calls

These are the two links that you can access to make API calls:

1. {website URL}/api/rooms to get list of all the rooms with other details about them in Json format.
2. {website URL}/api/rooms/{room id} to get details about a particular room. Room ids can be found in the url bar when you visit a particular room or in the Json list of rooms if you fetch.

Tools

• Django 4.0.6
• Python 3.10.4
• Django REST API Framework 3.13.1
• JavaScript
• CSS 3
• HTML 5

How to copy this project and run it?

1. Install python 3.9 or above
2. Clone this repository using

git clone https://github.com/JustA3DObject/DevFriends.git

3. Install Anaconda from web
4. Clone the virtual environment using

conda env create --name envname -f environment.yml

5. Activate the virtual environment by

conda activate envname

6. If you don't want to use conda, create virtual environment using

python -m venv ./venv(name) {Replace (name) with whatever suffix you want}

7. To activate environment via powershell type

venv(name)/Script/activate.ps1

8. Install the dependencies using

pip install -r requirements.txt

9. Create a django project using

django-admin startproject projectname and create the app using python manage.py startapp appname

10. Replace the default files with the favorable files from this repo except the security key in settings.py
11. Run the project using

python manage.py runserver