This charity auctions project enables users to participate in or create their own auctions. It follows best practices, including queryset optimization to avoid the n+1 problem, unit tests to ensure code functionality, caching to improve data handling speed, and containerization to ensure the app runs consistently across different machines.
This project leverages several technologies:
- Django REST framework for API development.
- PostgreSQL for data storage.
- Websockets for real-time user communication.
- Unit tests for endpoint testing.
- Redis as a message broker and for caching.
- Gunicorn and Nginx for managing communication between the React frontend and Django backend.
- Docker for containerization.
The project includes:
- Authentication with JWT, password reset, and password recovery via email.
- Auction management with the ability to create, edit, delete, and view auctions, including descriptions and photos.
- Bidding functionality where users can place bids and view all bids on an auction.
- Notifications for auction owners when their auction receives a bid.
- Filtering and searching to manage auctions by various criteria.
- User communication via Websockets for real-time conversations.
- Ensure Docker is installed on your machine.
- Clone the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/Andry925/charity_auctions2.git
- Fill in EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD and EMAIL_HOST_USER in the .env file to enable the email service.
- Build and run containers
$ docker compose up --build- Access the application at 127.0.0.1:80 or check the backend at 127.0.0.1:8000.