INFOShare

INFOShare has a plethora of ways people can collaborate and share information.

The project has five basic apps:

• News (A Twitter-like microblog)
• Articles (A collaborative blog or a Facebook like post)
• Question & Answers (A Stack Overflow-like platform)
• Messeger (A basic chat-a-like tool for asynchronous communication.)
• Groups (which could be a club or event: Coding Club, Alcheringa)

Technology Stack

• Python_ 3.6.x / 3.7.x
• Django Web Framework_ 1.11.x / 2.0.x
• PostgreSQL_
• Redis 3.2_
• Twitter Bootstrap 4_
• jQuery 3_

DEPLOYMENT LOCALLY

Make sure to have the following on your host:

• virtualenv

• pip

• PostgreSQL.

• libpq-dev $ sudo apt-get libpq-dev

Follow these steps to get it running on your machine:

• clone the repository

  $ git clone https://github.com/beingtmk/infoshare.git

• Create a virtual env

• Activate the virtualenv you have just created

• CD into the project folder

• Install development requirements:

  $ pip install -r requirements/local.txt

• Create a new PostgreSQL database and a user 'infoshare'

  $ createdb infoshare $ createuser infoshare

• Enter PostgreSQL

  $ sudo -u postgres psql

• create Role to access database

  # CREATE ROLE infoshare WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'ultimate';

• Grant all privileges to the user for him to connect to the database

  # GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES infoshare TO infoshare;

• Migrate the database

  $ python manage.py migrate

• Setup Email Backend - MailHog

  url - https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog/releases

  • Download the latest MailHog release for your OS.
  • Rename the build to MailHog.
  • Copy the file to the project root.
  • Make it executable. $ chmod +x MailHog
  • Spin up another terminal window and start it there: $ ./MailHog

• Configure Redis Server for websockets used in Notifications $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt install redis-server $ redis-server

• Run Server locally to view the project

  $ python manage.py runserver 8000

The Server will be deployed at 127.0.0.1:8000