AN E-COMMERCE DJANGO PROJECT.

Django ecommerce website with full-fledged backend features like mailing order to customers, printing order pdfs and managing asynchronous tasks.

The templates used in the frontend is designed by https://boostrapious.com.

The templates are great for learning how to build an e-commerce website.

Follow the following steps to run this in your local machine

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Follow the following steps to run the asynchronous task manager (Celery + RabbitMQ)

1. Install RabbitMQ on Linux by executing the command below from the shell

   apt-get install rabbitmq

   If you're using macOS or Windows, click here to download the standalone version of RabbitMQ.

2. After installing, RabbitMQ, execute the following commmand to launch RabbitMQ

   rabbitmq-server

3. Open a new shell, change directory to your project directory and start your celery worker with the following command

   celery -A myshop worker -l info

   Note that celery has been installed when you ran 'pip install -r requirements.txt'

4. To monitor asynchronous tasks with Flower - a web application for monitoring celery. Open a new shell and run the following command from your project directory.

   celery -A myshop flower

Technologies used

1. Weasyprint - To create pdf receipt for orders. Find implementation in views.py of orders app (line 44 - 52).

2. Celery - To handle asynchronous tasks - Example: sending order mails to customers. Find implementation in celery.py of ecommmerce folder, tasks.py of orders app and line 28 of views.py

3. RabbitMQ - Used as message broker for celery

4. Flower - Used to monitor Celery