Group Chat using Django

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1. User can a create, login, edit account.

2. Upload photo avatar.

3. Add, edit, delete their rooms.

4. Send message to rooms.

How to use

1. Clone the repo or download as zip and open it on a terminal or command prompt.

2. Create a virtual environment.

python -m venv env

3. Activate your environment

Windows

env\scripts\activate

Linux

source env/bin/activate

4. Install all the requirements from requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Create a .env file in your project like the followings

DB_NAME={your_database_name}
DB_USER={your_database_user}
DB_PASS={your_database_password}
DB_HOST={your_database_host}
DB_PORT=5432
SECRET_KEY={secret_key}

• The secret key can be anything you want. But make sure it is at least 32 characters.
• You can create a key by using "openssl rand -hex 32"
• If you want to use sqllite not postgesql then comment the first "default" database and uncomment the next "default". It will create a new sqllite database on your project directory.
• You can also use POSTGRES image from docker.

docker run -d --name db -e POSTGRES_DB=mydatabase -e POSTGRES_USER=myuser -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword -p 5432:5432 postgres:13-alpine

6. Go to app folder using "cd app"

7. Run migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

8. Create superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

9. Run the website using

python manage.py runserver

10. Go to "127.0.0.1:8000" to see the website

11. You can access the admin panel by this "127.0.0.1:8000/admin" and give the superuser username, password that you set earlier to see the admin panel.

Docker Hub

1. Pull the image from docker hub.

docker pull mahadi025/group-chat-app

2. Create a docker-compose.yml file.

3. On that file copy the followings.

version: "3"

services:
  app:
    image: mahadi025/group-chat-app
    command: sh -c "python manage.py migrate && python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    depends_on:
      - db
    environment:
      - DB_NAME=mydatabase
      - DB_USER=myuser
      - DB_PASSWORD=mypassword
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_PORT=5432
      - SECRET_KEY=very-secret-key

  db:
    image: postgres:13-alpine
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=mydatabase
      - POSTGRES_USER=myuser
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

volumes:
  postgres_data:

4. To run the app open the terminal or command prompt(where the docker-compose.yml file is) run:

docker-compose up

5. To create a superuser

docker compose run sh -c app "python manage.py createsuperuser"