Project Setup Backend (Using terminal)

1. Install Python3 and pip for backend and Node and NPM for frontend
2. Create a virutal environment using command python3 -m venv env (here env is the name of environment that gets created)
3. Activate environment using commad source env/bin/activate
4. Clone the project or go into project directory
5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt This will install all the required libraries for python and Backend
6. Migrating Data
   • Run python manage.py migrate to migrate Django's built in model
   • Run python manage.py makemigrations account to make migrations for our models under account/models
   • Run python manage.py migrate to migrate account models
7. To load data from given CSVs
   • Run python manage.py extract_faculty for populating professor data
   • Run python manage.py extract_student for populating student datt
   • Run python manage.py extract_posts for populatuing forum and post data

Project Setup Frontend

1. Then run go to frontend folder by running cd frontend
2. Run command npm i. This will install all required libraries needed for frontend
3. Go to root directory of project and run python manage.py runserver This will start backend server.
4. To run frontend, open a different terminal and go to frontend directory and run npm run dev
5. Now enter http://localhost:8000 in browser url to see the project running

Admin Page

Admin page can be accessed by going to address http://localhost:8000/admin . To login into admin create a superuser first by running python manage.py createsuperuser in project root directory. Enter username, email and password and use these username and password to login into admin.