/django-poor-man-twitter

Primary LanguagePython

Poor's Man Twitter implementation by Johnny Fang

requirements

Build a "Poor Man's Twitter" application in a single web page. The page consists of 2 pieces of functionality on the URL '/'.

  1. The ability for any visitor to tweet. A tweet consists of a 50 character text input, a datetime that automatically records the time of a message and a name. Visible form fields for a tweet are the tweet and the name, which must be aligned horizontally to one another. The ability to display all tweets (unpaginated) in a table . Show the time of the tweet, the message and the name. Sort the table using only the time and name columns.

  2. The tweet form should appear at the top of the page. The tweets table should appear underneath the form. The process of adding a tweet must be asynchronous.

No login is required in order to tweet.

Stack

  • Python 3
  • Django 3.0+ (backend)
  • Django Rest Framework
  • Vue
  • Bootstrap / JQuery
  • SQLite (Django default settings)

Run

# Create a virtual environment to isolate our package dependencies locally
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate # On Windows use env\Scripts\activate

# install dependencies
pip install -r requirements

# run migrations
python manage.py migrate

# run dev server
python manage.py runserver 8000

Tests

# run all tests
pytest

# launching pytest for specific test(s)
pytest twitter_app/tests/test_models.py