Installation and Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Pip
• PostgreSQL

Instructions

• Fork the repo
• Clone the forked repo to you local system git clone <URL>
• Add the link of the original repo as upstream. git remote add upstream <URL>
• Create a virtual environment python3 -m venv <Name of your choice>
• Activate the environment source <Name of your environment you gave in previous step>/bin/activate
• Switch to the branch dev using git checkout -b dev
• Create a new database in PostgreSQL using Pgadmin/shell.
• Go to impresario/settings.py and under database change the database name, username and passowrd you gave while setting up PostgreSQL
• On you terminal run pip install -r requirements.txt. This will install all the required packages.
• For migrating the changes into your database run python3 manage.py migrate
• Now to run the server locally, python3 manage.py runserver and check on localhost::8000

For Mentees in NITK Winter of code.

• Create a branch from dev with <frontend/backend>-<your name>. The command is git checkout -b <name of your branch> dev.
• Make your changes in this branch and push them.
• Create a PR to merge it with main and request a review to all the mentors.