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newamerica-cms is Django / Wagtail based CMS that relies heavily on React/Redux for dynamic front-end pages.

Stack

Infrastructure

• Heroku
• AWS
  • Route53
  • S3 buckets
  • Cloudfront

Read the infrastructure docs | Read how to deploy

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Backend

• Python
  • Weasyprint (for PDF generation)
  • python-docx (for Word doc parsing / importing)
  • Celery (for generating/importing in the background)
  • createsend (integration with campaign monitor)
• Django
• Wagtail CMS
• Django Rest Framework
• postgresql
• redis

Review the Django/Wagtail Models | Review the API Specs | Read the Petey F docs | See where the bodies are buried

Resources

• Django docs provide a good overview
• Django rest framework
• The Django Book
• Wagtail

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Frontend

• Django templates
• React
• Redux
• React-Router
• store.js (for client-side caching)
• webpack

Read the frontend docs | See where the bodies are buried