journal_app

Journal App using React + Typescript + Django

Project Specifications:

• Create app for personal journaling
• Build frontend with React and Typescript
• Build backend with Django REST framework
• Utilize SQL for database

Features:

• Custom text editor for styling journal text
• Functionality for saving journal to database and exporting to pdf
• Sortable and searchable list view of existing journals
• Settings for managing user-specific tags for indexed searching

Installation

Backend

# Create virtual environment then runs on 'localhost:8000'
# You will need to use postman or similar to manually
# create a user through the user api then store the id
# in env file for frontend
cd backend
python -m venv venv
venv/Scripts/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py runserver

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev