solved-chinese/app

A free, research-based vocab web app for beginners of Chinese with Django backend.

Solved Chinese

Solve Chinese characters like riddles.

File Structure

• jiezi/ django main app
• accounts/ app manages the User model and its basic information.
• content/ app manages the data created by our content team
• learning app implements our learning algorithm
• static/ & templates/ for django front end
• frontend/ for React

Installation

We have conda environments for both Mac and Ubuntu, Windows should also work but you would have to install the environment by yourself

1. clone this repo

git clone git@github.com:solved-chinese/app.git

2. Create a conda environment using the env.yaml/env-mac.yaml file in project root and activate it:

conda env create -f env.yaml # use env-mac.yaml if on mac
conda activate jiezi

3. Setup PostgresSQL: install PostgresSQL https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/ setup the database to match jiezi.settings.DATABASES:

sudo -u postgres psql
postgre# \password postgres (use this to change the password of postgres to 'jiezi')

4. Make the required migrations

python manage.py migrate

5. Locally run the development server

python manage.py runserver