Dromos

Overview

Dromos is designed to enhance user engagement and networking within a specific interest community through dynamic interactive node graphs on which users can create, edit, maintain, and collaborate. This platform targets both public and private sector researchers, scientists and stakeholders, offering tools that not only facilitate comprehensive visualization of causal pathways, but also encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

The Readme explicates the following with regard to the Dromos back-end. For front-end specific topics, such as front-end technologies, UX, and features, see Dromos.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Technologies Used
• Testing
  • Validator Testing
  • Known Bugs
• Deployment
• Credits
  • Content
  • Database Structure

Technologies Used

Django

Used for building robust web applications.

PostgreSQL

Used for database management.

Django REST Framework

Used for building Web APIs.

Allauth

Used for user authentication.

Simple JWT

Used for JWT authentication.

Heroku

Used for app deployment.

ElephantSQL

Used for PostgreSQL database management as a service.

Cloudinary

Used for asset management.

Testing

Validator Testing

• HTML: Passed W3C validation without errors.
• CSS: No errors on Jigsaw validator.

Known Bugs

Deployment

Deployed on Heroku:

1. Set up the Heroku project.
2. Linked to GitHub repository for continuous deployment.
3. Configured environment variables in Heroku settings.

Credits

Content

• All content used in project is original.

Database Structure