PyConAfrica 2020 - Building production-worthy websites with Django

Getting started

1. Clone this application - git clone https://github.com/Emmarex/PyconAfrica2020.git

2. Install and configure virtualenv

pip install --upgrade pip

pip install virtualenv

virtualenv env

# or specify python path

virtualenv --python=/usr/local/bin/python3 env

# activate the virtual environment

source env/bin/activate

3. Install project dependencies.

# switch to project directory

cd PyconAfrica2020

pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Edit init_env.sh

5. Set required environment variables

chmod +x init_env.sh

sh init_env.sh

6. [OPTIONAL- Compulsory for production settings only] Follow the steps here to configure Google Cloud Storage.

7. Make migrations and start the application

python manage.py makemigrations && python manage.py migrate

python manage.py runserver