The objective of this project is to develop a system that automates the process of ordering and managing food in a canteen. The system is built using the Django web framework and the Tailwind CSS framework for the frontend design. This will provide a convenient and efficient solution for both Admin and Canteen staff, allowing admin to easily place orders and track their status, and allowing canteen staff to manage the orders efficiently.

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1. Staff registration and login
2. Menu management
3. Order management
4. Bill generation
5. Summary of Transactions

• Create virtualenv

  python -m venv env
  env\Scripts\activate

• Install all the requirements

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Install django-tailwind

python -m pip install django-tailwind

• Start a postgres database called 'cas' on default port (5432)
• Create .env in root folder and add the following (refer Development Notes)

SECRET_KEY=<django_secret_key>
DATABASE_URL=<your_database_url>
API_KEY=<cloudinary_api_key>
API_SECRET=<cloudinary_api_secret>
CLOUD_NAME=<cloudinary_cloud_name>

• Make migrations

    python manage.py makemigrations
    python manage.py migrate

• Create a super user.

    python manage.py createsuperuser

• Running server

python manage.py runserver
python manage.py tailwind start

• DATABASE_URL in env is in the form of postgres://user:pass@host/dbname
• SECRET_KEY can be generated using get_random_secret_key() method

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
print(get_random_secret_key())

• Cloudinary related env vars can be accessed by signing up on Cloudinary and opening up the dashboard.

• Modify npm bin path (only if you're using Windows). Currently it is set to NPM_BIN_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/npm' for Mac & Linux based systems. If you're using Windows, you need to change it to NPM_BIN_PATH = r"C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.cmd" in settings.py of cas project. Do not stage settings.py while pushing to repo.

• If you add install any package during development, add it to requirements.txt by

pip freeze > requirements.txt

• Develop on a different branch (like 'feat/home-page', 'fix/overflow-issue' for different features/bug fixes and make PR to main or a single branch for all development purposes called 'develop' and make PRs to main from there

1. Login Page

2. Adding Canteen Items

3. Registering Kitchen Staff

4. Order Canteen Items

5. Home Page

6. View, Update, Delete Order items

7. View and Complete orders

8. Generated Bill Invoice

9. Summary

10. Secure Billing workflow

Nagaraj Pandith	Nidheesha T	Rudradeep Roy

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