/anonymous-reviewer-django-react

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Anonymous Reviewer Django React

This project allows anyone to see and leave reviews for businesses without needing to create an account, thereby remaining anonymous. This project is built using Django and ReactJS. See below for quickstart instructions.

Live Demo

https://anonymous-reviewer-app.herokuapp.com/

Compiling static resource

Run the two commands below to update the resources

npm run build
python manage.py collectstatic --no-input

Rebuild and run in one command

npm run build; python manage.py collectstatic --no-input; python manage.py runserver

Loading fixtures

python manage.py loaddata backend/fixtures/fixtures.json

Run Celery

To run celery ensure Redis is running and run the command

celery -A backend worker

Quickstart Instructions

Note: This project relies on postgresql being installed on your system There should be a database with a name, user, and password of 'anonymous_reviewer_django_react'

  1. Create a Google Recaptcha key https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/invisible and add it to the keys.tsx file (optional but needed for submitting data from website)

  2. Create a virtual environment (optional but recommended) https://packaging.python.org/guides/installing-using-pip-and-virtual-environments/

  3. Install python requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Install node modules
npm install
  1. Compile static resources
npm run build
python manage.py collectstatic --no-input
  1. Run migrations
python manage.py migrate
  1. Load testing fixtures
python manage.py loaddata backend/fixtures/fixtures.json
  1. Run server
python manage.py runserver
  1. The project should be running and accessible by going to localhost:8000

One example is to search for My Restaurant which will have a variety of reviews

Deploying to Heroku

This project also contains the configuration to be deploy to Heroku (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-app-configuration). If you created a project in Heroku you should only need to set the git upstream and run git push heroku master in order for this project to be run on Heroku. For further instructions please reference Heroku documentation.