Mentors Marketplace

This project is a marketplace to find developers and freelancers. A mentor can invite you to join a session. Once a session is complete, clients can pay for the session using Stripe. Payouts to mentors are done using Stripe connect.

You can learn how to build this project from scratch on JustDjango.

Here is an overview of the features:

See a list of mentors
View a mentor's profile, including their ratings and reviews
Realtime chat with mentors - provided by TalkJS
Mentors can start a paid session with you
Pay for a session using Stripe
Mentors receive payouts with Stripe Connect
Review a mentor after a session
View your session history as either a mentor or client

Technologies Used

Django and Django Rest Framework
NextJS

Setting up the project

This project was bootstrapped with Cookiecutter Django, hence the Django project can be setup with Docker or to run locally inside a virtual environment. The frontend folder contains the NextJS project.

Run through these steps to setup the project for the first time:

Set your environment variables for the Django project inside .envs/local/.django and for the NextJS project inside frontend/.env.local. You can use the frontend/.env.template file as a starting point.
For the Django project build the docker containers with docker-compose -f local.yml build
Install dependencies for the NextJS project with cd frontend && npm i
Run the Django docker project with docker-compose -f local.yml up
Run the NextJS project with npm run dev
Create superusers and test users
Django mentors are by default set is_approved=False which means they will not show up in search results until they are approved. Right now the only way approve is to manually via the Django admin.

License: MIT

Settings

Moved to settings.

Basic Commands

Setting Up Your Users

To create a normal user account, just go to Sign Up and fill out the form. Once you submit it, you'll see a "Verify Your E-mail Address" page. Go to your console to see a simulated email verification message. Copy the link into your browser. Now the user's email should be verified and ready to go.
To create an superuser account, use this command:
```
$ python manage.py createsuperuser
```

For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.

Type checks

Running type checks with mypy:

$ mypy mentors

Test coverage

To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report:

$ coverage run -m pytest
$ coverage html
$ open htmlcov/index.html

Running tests with pytest

$ pytest

Live reloading and Sass CSS compilation

Moved to Live reloading and SASS compilation.

Celery

This app comes with Celery.

To run a celery worker:

cd mentors
celery -A config.celery_app worker -l info

Please note: For Celery's import magic to work, it is important where the celery commands are run. If you are in the same folder with manage.py, you should be right.

Sentry

Sentry is an error logging aggregator service. You can sign up for a free account at https://sentry.io/signup/?code=cookiecutter or download and host it yourself. The system is set up with reasonable defaults, including 404 logging and integration with the WSGI application.

You must set the DSN url in production.

Deployment

The following details how to deploy this application.

Docker

See detailed cookiecutter-django Docker documentation.

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