Group 12 CPSC 471 Final Project

We have built a backend and a small portion of our proposed front end. Thus, to see both you have to have two different consoles.

Required prerequisites

• Python
• Django
• django-polymorphic
• NodeJS
• npm
• Bootstrap

If you have any other problems with running the problem you can email Bryce Cayanan at bryce.cayanan1@ucalgary.ca, because our group might have some software already installed, that we never realized, that others might not have.

However, in summary, install all prerequisites needed to run a Bootstrap React and Django app, with django-polymorphism

Creating the database

So we have already provided you with the empty database tables, but if you want to completely create a new database you would have to do 3 things:

1. Delete the db.sqlite3 file
2. In ./api/migrations, delete all files within the directory EXCEPT FOR init.py
3. Now, open the console within the outer CPSC471 directory, that contains all of our files, and write

python manage.py makemigrations

then

python manage.py migrate

Now you will have a new db.sqlite3 file and have a file in migrations 0001_initial.py

Note: This database will be empty, so you have to populate it on your own, starting with creating an admin, which, after you login with an admin account, you can then use any api in our program.

Running backend Django

Open a console, within the same directory that contains this README.md file

Write out "source venv\Scripts\activate" to start your virtual environment. Then, write out "python manage.py runserver"

It is here, where you will check if you have all of the prerequisites needed to run our program. If everything goes well, you will see something like this:

Watching for file changes with StatReloader
Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
December 10, 2020 - 23:52:34
Django version 3.1.4, using settings 'CPSC471.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

##Running backend Django Open another console, within the frontend directory on this project Then, write the line: "npm run start", hit to start up the website. You will see this:

> frontend@0.1.0 start C:\Users\bryce\OneDrive\Desktop\CPSC471\frontend
> react-scripts start

Then press enter again, and the website will automatically popup.

Postman requests

When making postman requests, make sure the cookies have session_id within it, because we use Django's session and authentication software for how we restrict access for different users