Django Reddit

A Reddit clone using Django and Angular

Features

User authentication.
User can create stand alone posts and group posts.
User can follow people, posts.
Thread discussions on posts
Upvote and downvotes on posts and comments
Report posts
Bookmark posts
User can join groups, create groups which can be private, restricted or public.
Invites and member joining requests for groups

Requirements

Backend
- Python 3.8+
- virtualenv
- WSL
Frontend
- Angular 10.2.4 (or 10.2.5)
- Node 10.13.x +

Installation

Clone the repository and enter the root directory

git clone https://github.com/madhvi-n/django-reddit.git
cd django-reddit

Create a virtual environment and activate it

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Making sure your virtual environment is activated, install the dependencies using pip

pip install -r requirements.txt

You can set the secret key for django project in 2 ways

Edit the reddit_clone/settings.py file and add a key manually, some random string.
Edit the venv file to export SECRET_KEY

After installing dependencies, migrate Django apps.(You will find the list of apps when you run the command python manage.py runserver)

python manage.py migrate

Finally start your Django server

python manage.py runserver

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ or localhost:8000 for running web server Alternatively you can access the admin interface on http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ or localhost:8000/admin

Access python shell

python manage.py shell

Generating data using shell

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from posts.models import Post
from groups.models import Group

user = User.objects.get(id=1)
post = Post.objects.create(title="Something here", content="A very long text as the content here", author=user)

group = Group.objects.create(name="Django", description="Official Django community on Django Reddit")

Generating dummy data using management commands

python manage.py populate_users
python manage.py populate_posts
python.manage.py populate_tags
python.manage.py populate_groups

Frontend

Start another shell tab and access the root of frontend directory static/frontend/reddit-app (without bash or activated virtual environment).
Install the angular dependencies

npm install

Visit http://127.0.0.1:4200 or localhost:4200 to access frontend.

madhvi-n/django-reddit