About the project

PaperLess is a web application that generates PDF document from HTML templates.

Technologies used

                 

Getting Started

Setting Up Virtual Environment

• Clone the project

git clone git@github.com:SiddhantTotade/PaperLess.git

• Open the project in the terminal. The below command opens the project in vs-code but you can choose any editor

code .

• In the terminal type command to create a virtual environment. Prefer root directory for venv

  • The below command create a virtual environment in a specific directory

  python -m venv <name_of_venv>

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  • The below command create a virtual envvironment in the current directory

  python -m venv .

• After creating venv, Activate it. Go to the directory in which the venv exists and type command

source bin/activate

• Deactivate the virtual environment.

deactivate

• Before installing the requirements.txt check if there is something exists or not. If the command shows nothing then nothing is installed yet

pip freeze

• After activating venv, install the requirements.txt.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting Up Application

• After enabling the venv, run the command for creating migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

• After creating the migrations of all the models, run command

python manage.py migrate

Running Django Server (Backend)

• Change directory to paperless

cd paperless

• Run the django serever

python manage.py runserver

Running React Server (Frontend)

• Visit this repo PaperLess-Frontend

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