Eieat Marketplace

An online food marketplace where customers can order foods and restaurants can join and publish their menu on the marketplace.

Previews
Homepage
Admin panel
Restaurant's dashboard
Customer's dashboard

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Requirements

• Python 3.11 or higher

• PostgreSQL

• smtp4dev

• Git Bash (Optional)

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Installation

Open cmd or bash in the project directory.

Install Python virtual environment

pip install virtualenv

Create a virtual environment

virtualenv env_name

Activate virtual environment

On Mac and Linux (Also if you are using bash on Windows)

source env_name/bin/activate

On Windows (If you are using cmd)

.\env_name\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

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Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to create and add the following environment variables to your .env file

DEBUG=True

To generate a new secret key

python manage.py shell -c "from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())"

SECRET_KEY=django-insecure-YOUR_SECRET_KEY

You need to create a new PostgreSQL database

DB_NAME=YOUR_DATABASE_NAME

DB_USER=DATABASE_USER

DB_PASSWORD=YOUR_DATABASE_PASSWORD

DB_HOST=localhost

You need to create stripe developer account

STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY

STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=STRIPE_SECRET_KEY

BACKEND_DOMAIN=http://127.0.0.1:8000

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Run Locally

Migrate database

python manage.py makemigrations && python manage.py migrate

Create an admin user

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the Django server

python manage.py runserver

Run the smtp4dev server to prevent any potential errors while creating restaurant and customer accounts or carrying out food ordering processes.

Or

Configure smtp in the settings.py to use your own email server.

EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.your-email-provider.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'your-email@example.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'your-email-App-password'

You can access the website at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and the admin panel at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

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License

MIT