slackidum-backend

This is a bakcend built with Django for Slackidum web application. Following technologies have been used.

• django web framework
• djangorestframework - to build API endpoints
• django-channels, for WebSocket
• redis, as a backing store
• postgresql, as a database

Installation

Please make sure you that you have following prerequisites installed before installing on your machine.

• Python 3.5 or later
• Postgresql 9.4 or later
• Redis 5.0

Steps

1. Clone this respository.

   $ git clone https://github.com/arjun2504/slackidum-backend.git
   $ cd slackidum-backend
   

2. Create a virtual envrionment.

   $ virtualenv venv
   $ source venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install the dependencies

   (venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Open up slackidum/settings.py and modify your database settings.

   DATABASES = {
   'default': {
           'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
           'NAME': 'slackidum',
           'USER': 'postgres',
           'PASSWORD': 'postgres',
           'HOST': 'localhost',
           'PORT': '5432',
       }
   }
   

5. In case you are running redis on a different port, make sure your update it in the following code in the same file.

   CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
       'default': {
           'BACKEND': 'channels_redis.core.RedisChannelLayer',
           'CONFIG': {
               "hosts": [('127.0.0.1', 6379)],
           },
       },
   }
   

6. Migrate database.

   (venv) $ python manage.py makemigrations
   (venv) $ python manage.py migrate
   

7. Now serve the backend using:

   (venv) $ python manage.py runserver
   

You're done!

Now its time to setup front end. Please look at this repository.