post-it-backend

PostIt ​is a simple application that allows friends and colleagues to create groups for notifications. This way one person can post notifications to everyone by sending a message once. The application allows people to create accounts, create groups add registered users to the groups, and then send messages to these groups whenever they want.

Project Setup

1. After cloning the repo, set up a virtual environment python3 -m venv .venv

2. Activate the virtual environment . .venv/bin/activate

3. Install the dependencies in requirements.txt pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Configure PostgresSQL i) Open the PostgresSQL command line interface psql postgres

   ii) From your terminal, create a database CREATE DATABASE postit;

   iii) Create a user, feel free to replace the username and password CREATE USER admin WITH PASSWORD 'password';

   iv) Modify the connection parameters for the created user ALTER ROLE admin SET client_encoding TO 'utf8'; ALTER ROLE admin SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed'; ALTER ROLE admin SET timezone TO 'UTC';

   v) Grant the user access rights to the database GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE postit TO admin;

   vi) Exit the postgres command line \q

5. Create a .env file at the root of the project and set the database configurations there SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key DB_NAME=postit DB_USER=admin DB_PASSWORD=your_password DB_HOST=localhost DB_PORT=5432

6. Make migrations python manage.py makemigrations

7. Migrate to create tables python manage.py migrate

8. Create a superuser python manage.py createsuperuser

9. Start the server python manage.py runserver