Democracy Club website

This is the website hosted at https://democracyclub.org.uk/

Set up

This is a Django project using PostgreSQL. The project is deployed using Python 3.6.

Packages

This project uses pipenv to manage dependencies. To perform the package install, run the following within your venv:

pip install pipenv
pipenv install

Read more about pipenv package management here.

Database

First, ensure you have Postgres available.

#OSX
brew install postgres

You'll then need to create a database for this project.

createdb democracy_club

Once you're st up, run the migration:

python manage.py migrate

Blog Posts

To view blog posts, you need to first add new posts to your db. You can do this by creating an admin user in your terminal

python manage.py createsuperuser

then navigate to the /admin panel to create a new post. New posts are created at /admin/hermes/post.

Blog posts now include tags which correspond to projects, such as representatives.

We've hard-coded tags to reduce the risk of typos and to ensure that tags are used consistently. To add or edit a tag, change the tag_values variable in democracy_club/apps/hermes/admin.py.

Staging environment

Add your branch to the staging env on .circleci/config to deploy to https://stage.democracyclub.org.uk and test/view edits

DC Dependencies

• [dc_django_utils]() is the source code for basic HTML structure, forms
• [dc_design_system]()

Cron / scheduling / events

Deployment

This project is deployed using CircleCI.

Pages are normally cached using CloudFront, and a site-side invalidation is created on each new deployment.

[TODO]

Update docs to include

• new pipeline settings
• Whitenoise