Personal Tech Website

Secrets

The project depends on several secrets, stored in AWS Secret Manager. Ensure your AWS environment credentials are set up in order to access.

Local Development

Before:

Install npm. On Mac: brew install npm - check using appropriate version On Windows: https://nodejs.org/en/

To set up locally, run the following:

1. make local
2. make migrate
3. make npm-install (using node v10.9)
4. make frontend-dev

If you want to log in to the django admin page (will be at 127.0.0.1:8000/admin) create a superuser using make superuser.

During:

• Run pipenv install after making changes to the Pipfile/Pipfile.lock
• Kill the webpack process then run make npm-install after updating package.json

Deployment

The website is hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, with an RDS database.

To deploy an update, run:

1. make npm-build and make collect-static (for a frontend update).
2. make deploy