Location Ranker

Thanks for checking this out! The idea is to, while looking for a new apartment or house or place to live/visit, scoring how good that place is based on what you want it to be near.

Steps to run locally

Eventually it would be fun to host this. For now, just clone and run locally.

Client

1. rename '.example.env.local' to '.env.local'. Replace "YOUR_API_KEY" with your Google API key.

2. Separately, get an API key for Google Maps.

• If you don't have one, check this page for how to set up an account and get a key.
• You'll need to make sure the key is enabled for the following APIs:
  • Directions API
  • Geocoding API
  • Maps JavaScript API
  • Places API

2. install packages:

   npm run install

3. start development environment: npm run dev

Server

1. within './server', rename '.example.env' to '.env' and replace the preset values:

• SECRET_KEY: generate a django project key by running these two commands in your terminal:

  python3 -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())'

• Insert Google API Key, same from Client.
• USE_FAKE_API_DATA: If set to TRUE, code will reference hardcoded dummy data. When developing, this will limit API calls, and thus costs associated with Google's API.

2. At './server', create a shell environment. I used pipenv when developing, but pip or other options should work.

# if you don't have pipenv, run install
pip install pipenv
pipenv shell

3. Run DB migrations:

python manage.py migrate

3. Run server:

python manage.py runserver

See the application:

Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.