DaTracker

DaTracker stands for Damn awesome Tracker. It is a small web application. It's main purpose is to minimize effort for company managers during checking task-solving progress by employees. At the same time, DaTracker aggregates simple statistics about the company and its workplaces. So far managers can create issues for employees, assign them, track them, etc.

Before you continue

The project is still under development, and will be actively developed. There is still a lot work to do, so any contributors will be welcome.

Prerequisites

There are prerequisites in order to run this project locally:

• Install Git on your machine.
• Install SASS on your machine.
• Install Python 3.6.0 or higher on your machine.
• pip (A package manager for Python) should be installed along with your Python installation. You can check if python was installed by running command pip --version. The same way check for pip3 : pip3 --version. If both these commands were not recognized by system, it means, the pip is not installed or was removed. In this case install pip manually.
• Install virtualenv. This is because we want to avoid system-wide package installation.
• Install NodeJS 10.1.0 or higher.
• NPM package manager for NodeJS should be installed along NodeJS installation. Check if you have installed npm by typing npm --version in terminal. If command is not recognized, install NPM package manager

How to initialize

In order to install DaTracker you must finish following steps:

• If you have not opened Terminal, open it and navigate into folder where you would like to have DaTracker installed.
• run git clone git@github.com:fusion2222/datracker.git from your Terminal. This command clones clone on your computer.
• Navigate to newly created DaTracker folder using your Terminal.
• Create virtualenv for DaTracker in your system.
• Activate virtualenv you recently created.
• Create Database SQLite file in your datracker root directory. Name it db.sqlite3.
• run pip install -r requirements.txt in your Terminal. If you have installed pip3 instead, run the same command for pip3
• Copy env.json.example into project root directory and name it env.json. Then set your project variables in this file, especially the secret key.
• Run python manage.py makemigrations
• Run python manage.py create_initial_data - This will also create your test data
• Rum npm install
• Run npm link gulp
• Run gulp sass
• Run gulp js
• Run python manage.py collectstatic

How to run

Okay you have project succesfuly installed. Now follow these steps:

• Activate your virtualenv related to datracker project and navigate into project root folder.
• Start local development server.
• Type localhost:8000 as web address in your browser. Datracker should load.
• If you ran python manage.py create_initial_data, administrator Employee has been already created. Default username is admin and password is password. Otherwise use Django createsuperuser command.

Important notice

Currently this biggest flaws of DaTracker is secure handling of vendor-packages, frontnend as well as Messages module not working. This will be fixed soon.

Contribution guide

Jesus once said wise thing - Those who will try to push any code into this repository, without reading following rules will be damned. So better check the rules:

• Project uses strictly SCSS syntax as the only CSS syntactical preprocessor. We do not mix Sass, Less and SCSS no matter what. (only exceptions are vendor packages)
• Consistency - If there is some naming convention widely used in project, use it no matter how obscure it looks. This applies also for graphical and frontend stuff.
• Keep as low dependencies as possible - Dependencies are good.. but only if they save you a lot of tedious, difficult or repetitive work.
• Any ideas are welcome and feel free to discuss.

Compiling Javascript and SCSS to CSS

For one-time compilation of your Javascript files use following command:

gulp js

For one-time compilation of your SCSS files use following command:

gulp sass

In case of active development related to SCSS and JS files you may need to have watchdog-compilation, so you can develop more quickly and elegantly:

gulp watch

Important notes

More details Will be added..

Contact

In case of any questions feel free to contact me on GitHub.