Dearborn Coding Club's Backend Django Server

• A backend webserver for serving static assets and handling requests for dearborncodingclub.com.
• Check out the slack channel here.
• Check out the meetup group here.

Getting Set Up In Docker (Recommended)

• Ensure you have docker desktop installed locally.
• Run docker login.
• Run docker run -p 8000:8000 --rm -it $(docker build -q .).
  • Optionally, you can run make run.

For Mac

• Install pnpm

  • curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -.

• Install python dependencies

  • python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt.

• Install django-cors-headers

  • python3 -m pip install django-cors-headers==4.3.1.

• Run python environment

  • python3 -m venv ./.

• Upgrade pip

  • python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip.

• Activate local python env.

  • source bin/activate.

• If you need, alias python3 to python.

  • echo 'alias python="python3"' >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc;

• Go to http://localhost:8000 in your web browser and view the website locally! 🎉

Running the application on a different domain

• If you want to run the application on a different domain, be sure to add to the settings.py file under ALLOWED_HOSTS.

Deploy

• To deploy changes to the website (dearborncodingclub.com), merge a pull request to main.
• In order to deploy changes to the website manually, make sure you're logged into the fly.io site (https://fly.io/apps/website-base-backend) locally.
• Install flyctl
  • brew install flyctl.
• Run flyctl deploy.