CS3216 Assignment 1 - Life of a Facebook Application

Group Name: Group 8

App Name: Would You ___?
App URL: https://wouldyou.space

Group Members:

Le Xuan Manh (A0126501W)
Piyush Varanjani (A0105178H)
You Jing (A0133895U)
Zhang YiJiang (A0135817B)

Setup

1. Check you have the prerequisites installed. Python 3.5 is required for the server and Node 6.x and gulp is required for the asset pipeline.

2. Grab a copy of the repo with git clone

3. Create a Python 3.5 virtual environment somewhere (home folder usually) by following the instruction from https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html and activate it by running source /path/to/venv/bin/activate

4. Install the Python prerequisites with

   cd cs3216_wouldyou
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Create the .env using

   cd cs3216_wouldyou
   cp .env.example .env
   nano .env 
   

   and fill in the blanks.

   • SECRET_KEY can be created using http://www.miniwebtool.com/django-secret-key-generator/
   • FACEBOOK_KEY and FACEBOOK_SECRET are from http://developer.facebook.com. Use the test app for local testing and the actual app for staging and production

6. Return to the project root (cd ..) and run the database migrations using ./manage.py migrate or for OSX python manage.python migrate

7. Load fixture data using ./manage.py loaddata wouldyou/fixtures/verbs.json

8. Start the server using ./manage.py runserver or for OSX python manage.python runserver

9. Create a superuser using ./manage.py createsuperuser and follow the instructions

To start with the asset pipeline,

1. Change to the asset directory cd wouldyou/assets
2. Install the prerequisites npm install
3. If necessary, install gulp globally npm i -g gulp
4. Run gulp serve to start the Browsersync server, or
5. Run gulp watch to watch for asset changes without using Browsersync

Remember to include the compiled CSS and JS files. You should also run gulp build --env=production before pushing so that the minified files are included in the commit.

You can also used the included githook to do this automatically on each commit.

 ln -s /full/path/to/githook/pre-commit /path/to/repo/.git/hook/pre-commit

Fabric tasks

Fabric is a automatic deployment and system administration utility. We use this for deployment and other server admin tasks.

Getting started

1. Ensure you have a ssh key registered with the app user of the server
2. Install Fabric

fab deploy - Deployment

This will pull a copy of the code from the master branch to the server and run through the steps needed to update the site including migrate and collectstatic.

fab createsuperuser - Create admin user

Creates an admin user on the server. Please pick a strong password because this is on the actual server!