555 Final Project

Prerequisites

1. Install python 3.8+, check version using python --version
2. Instal pip, the python package manager, check version using pip --version
3. Install django using pip pip install Django
4. Verify django installed using python -m django --version. Should be at least 4.1
5. Clone this project, navigate to project directory
6. Install Django webpack loader: pip install django-webpack-loader
7. Install Django Rest Framework: pip install django-rest-framework
8. Install Django CORS Headers: pip install django-cors-headers
9. Install Knox: pip install django-rest-knox
10. Install react and react Dom npm install react react-dom
11. Install dependencies npm install

Starting up

1. Inside the project directory, you should see the module finalproject (parent directory), solar (frontend/React directory) and api (backend services).
2. To Start the app on your local machine, just run npm install, npm run dev and then python manage.py runserver.
3. Navigate to localhost:8000/ in your browser to view app.
4. To Stop the server, CTRL-c inside your terminal window.

NOTE

• If your default python version is less than 3.9, then you might have to install a newer version of python. Alternatively you can try running python3 manage.py runserver and replace all instances of python with python3

AWS Backend

Our AWS backend resources and code are currently not in sync with our Github repository. To allow the professor access to our AWS environment, we have shared the necessary credentials with them.

This is a demo