sirajabbas/noah

Noah's Arc - Rebuilding after the Flood

Contents

• How to Run the Project
• Notes and Guidelines

How to Run the Project

1. Make sure you have pipenv installed

2. Create a MySQL database for this app

3. Make sure you set all environment variables mentioned in env.dev.sh

   $ source env.dev.sh # Only after you edit the variables to match your environment
   

4. Install all dependencies

   $ pipenv install
   

5. Run migrations

   $ python manage.py migrate
   

6. Run the web server

   $ python manage.py runserver
   

7. Run webpack

   $ cd noah_frontend && yarn dev
   

To avoid double-templating (first by Django templates and then by React DOM), the frontend of noah is completely served as completely static files. A development server is setup using Django's static file server and can be accessed at http://localhost:8000/index.html

Notes and Guidelines

1. While writing Django views, try to keep the business and core logic separate from the views, use the services package to house the logic
2. How to authenticate a view

• This app uses a custom and simple token based authentication system

• Use the decorator function services.auth.AuthenticationService.is_authenticated_request

• Any view using the above decorator will be passed an argument with the authenticated UserProfileModel object

  >>> authService = AuthenticationService()
  >>> class ExampleView(View):
      @authService.is_authenticated_request
      def post(self, request):
          return JsonResponse({"authenticated": True}, status=200)