La Journal

By Morgan Waites

Site for making blog posts showing CRUD functionality with user accounts and blog posts, email server set up and image hosting through Cloudinary. Live on Heroku free server.

In development currently

See it here! https://journal-django-project.herokuapp.com/

Technologies Used

• Python
• Django framework
• Bootstrap/HTML/CSS/Javascript
• SQLite database for dev, Postgres for production
• Cloudinary for image storage, image upload

Known bugs or things to improve/add

• Not a bug but... needs tweaking with styling and image transformations... further exploration with Cloudinary.
• Need to add feature to let user delete accounts.
• Code is messy

Set Up/Installation

• git clone this repository.
• navigate into top-level of directory
• Change email host to be your own in settings.py and make sure less secure apps are turned on and acquire app password
• touch .env and put in environment variable for EMAIL_PASS like so: EMAIL_PASS=app_password_goes_here_no_quotes
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• python3 manage.py runserver
• terminal should start server then will say something akin to: "Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/"
• copy the http address it provides into your internet browser

License

MIT

Copyright (c) 2021 Morgan Waites.