Dev2cents is a platform where developers(senior,mid-dev) post facts, quote, motivation about development, software engineering,tech etc, which will motivate other developers(newbie) and aid them in their career as a developer
Users are able to:
- Create account
- Make cents
Dev2Cents is built using
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PYTHON
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HTML
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CSS
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DJANGO
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BOOTSTRAP
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MARIA DB (database used)
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JAVASCRIPT
To run this project on your machine. Make sure you have python3 installed on your machine. Create a virtual environment on your code editor using the command
virtualenv <name of environment>
If virtualenv is not installed on your machine. Install it or use this alternative to create a virtual environment
python -m venv <name of environment>
After virtual environment has been created. Install all packages listed in the requirements.txt file using the command below:
pip install -r requirements.txt
All packages should install without errors.
After package installation, generate a secret key in your terminal with the command below
from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
print(get_random_secret_key())
This generates a secret key. Copy the key
Create a .env file in the product directory
Input SECRET_KEY=<secret key copied from terminal>
Then run the python server with the command
python3 manage.py runserver
