/squawker-django

Assignment to build squawker in Django

Primary LanguagePython

Squawker (Django)

In this assignment, you will rebuild Squawker in Django.

Requirements

  • The homepage (/) contains:
    • A single form, to post a new squawk (5%)
    • All past squawks (20%)
      • Sorted from newest to oldest (10%)
  • Submitting the form:
    1. Creates a new squawk (20%)
    2. Shows / takes the user back to the homepage (5%)
      • In other words, they should see the updated homepage with the new squawk.
  • Squawks are limited to 140 characters
    • Client-side (5%)
      • Uses HTML5 form validation
    • Server-side (10%)
      • Responds with a status code of 400 if the form is submitted with invalid data.
  • Passes Code Climate checks (5%)
  • Works without JavaScript
  • Deployed to Heroku at <NETID>-squawker.herokuapp.com (20%)

Visual styling is not considered as part of the score, though feel free to get creative! In other words, feel free to make your site pretty, but not a problem if it isn't.

Extra credit

  • Pagination (10%)
    • The squawks are shown 20 at a time
    • There's a Next link to see older squawks, if there are any

Tips

  • You will set up Django project in your copy of this repository yourself. To do so, run the following from this directory:

    django-admin startproject squawker .

  • Run Django with the following from within your virtual machine:

    python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

  • Django will use SQLite3 as it's database by default, but you'll have to change this to PostgreSQL ("Postgres") before you deploy to Heroku.