Django Local Library

Tutorial "Local Library" website written in Django.

Overview

This web application creates an online catalog for a small local library, where users can browse available books and manage their accounts.

The main features that have currently been implemented are:

• There are models for books, book copies, genre, language and authors.
• Users can view list and detail information for books and authors.
• Admin users can create and manage models. The admin has been optimised (the basic registration is present in admin.py, but commented out).
• Librarians can renew reserved books

Quick Start

To get this project up and running locally on your computer:

1. Set up the Python virtual environment.
2. Assuming you have Python setup, run the following commands (if you're on Windows you may use py or py -3 instead of python to start Python):

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   python3 manage.py makemigrations
   python3 manage.py migrate
   python3 manage.py collectstatic
   python3 manage.py test # Run the standard tests. These should all pass.
   python3 manage.py createsuperuser # Create a superuser
   python3 manage.py runserver
   

3. Open a browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to open the admin site
4. Create a few test objects of each type.
5. Open tab to http://127.0.0.1:8000 to see the main site, with your new objects.