Forums For All

Introduction

This is my 4th and final project in the Software Engineering Bootcamp by General Assembly, and it's a reddit clone where you can ask questions and answer. It features categories portraying subreddits in reddit, and it also accepts media such as images.

Technologies Used

• PostgresSQL
• Django
• Python
• CSS3
• JavaScript

Get Started

Clone Repository

Clone the repository in a directory of your liking:

git clone https://github.com/yousifj129/forums-for-all.git

Setup and Install Python/Django

Download python

• Download Python

Setup your Virtual Environment

In the project directory lets setup a virtual environment:

python -m venv my-env

my-env can be anything

and then run the environment:

Windows:

source name-of-venv/scripts/activate

Mac:

source name-of-venv/bin/activate

Install Django and packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup your PostgresSQL database

• create a .env file
• add the following in the .env:

  DB_PASSWORD=your_pgadmin_password
  

• create a database in pgadmin called forums-for-all

now you can run the app:

python manage.py runserver