ETLAS

This is the backend application for ETLAS, an electronic tour guide. It contains an archive of the most popular tours, landmarks, monuments, statues, etc. of several places. It also contains a timeline of the history of several places. It also contains a knowledge check section where the users can test their knowledge about the history of several places. And most importantly, it contains a feature that allows the users to capture the landmarks, monuments, statues, etc. around them and get information about them from the ETLAS database directly.
The application is built using Django and Django REST Framework, along with Celery for the background tasks and Redis as a broker for Celery. It also uses PostgreSQL as a database and Backblaze B2 Storage for the cloud storage.

Features

• Articles: Each article is about some topic/monument/statue/landmark, and it tells a bit of history and related stories about it.
• Timeline: The history timeline of several places/countries. Each timeline consists of many eras, and each era starts and ends at some times and has its own story/properties as well.
• Tours: A set of the most liked or most visited together places/landmarks/statues as a recommendation from the ETLAS team for the users to help them choose their own tours without the need for a tour guide.
• Knowledge check: A set of interesting multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to let the users test their knowledge about historic topics/landmarks/monuments/statues.
• Users: Models, serializers, urls, views, permissions that are responsible for all the functionalities related to users, their accounts, and authorization.
• API: The main app for the project that contains the settings, main urls, celery settings, configs for the cloud storage, and much more.
• Authentication: The default app for authentication in Django and contains all the main authentication functionalities of logging in, signing up, email verification, and much more.
• Social auth: This app is responsible for all the authentication functionalities using social media accounts like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to ETLAS! If you would like to contribute, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the project on GitHub.
2. Clone your fork to your local machine.
3. Create a new branch for your changes.
4. Make your changes and commit them to your branch.
5. Push your changes to your fork.
6. Open a pull request against the original project.

Getting Started

To get started with ETLAS, you will need to:

1. Install Python 3.6 or higher.
2. Install Django 3.1 or higher.
3. Install the requirements.txt file.
4. Create a database and migrate the models.
5. Run the development server.

Running the Project

To run the project, simply run the following command in the project directory:

 python3 manage.py runserver

Use code with caution. Learn more The project will be available at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your web browser.

Happy Coding!