HackMcGill Dev Team Coding Challenge

Introduction

The live-site has been taken down as the challenge has been completed.

This web application was built to complete the development team challenge (check forked repository), for the HackMcGill Recruitment Process 2019.

🔧 The stack is:

Python 3.7
Django 2.1.4
MongoDB 4.0 Community
HTML/CSS
Python Packages (Djongo)

The application was deployed to a droplet on DigitalOcean, on a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04

Run Locally 💻

Ensure you have the above dependencies installed.

Then clone the repository --> git clone https://github.com/gaurav-karna/dev-challenge

Navigate into the repository: cd dev-challenge/

Ensure you have MongoDB running in the background, then make the required migrations: python3 manage.py makemigrations, and then follow with python3 manage.py migrate

Start the development server with python3 manage.py runserver, and navigate to localhost:8000 in your browser.

Challenges 😮

MongoDB is a new technology that I had to learn how to work with. Though I have had minimal NoSQL experience with Google Firebase, it was still a learning curve - albeit, still much easier to work with as opposed to PostgreSQL.

Deploying to DigitalOcean was done through their guide --> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04#create-and-configure-a-new-django-project

I had some troubles configuring nginx properly, although it should be working properly now. I added a CNAME for hackmcgill.gkarna.com to point to the same resource of the IP address above - although it will take some time to propagate.

Questions / Improvements

Feel free to open an issue, or contact me at gaurav.karna@mail.mcgill.ca