Team Pogware's DECO3801 project.
To run the django web server, a version of python above 3.6 is required. On MAC to install python run
brew install python
On windows typing python3 into the command line will open the windows store.
Next install the python package virtualenv with
pip3 install virtualenv
then navigate to the local project directory - this should be where git init
was run. Now create a new virtual environment and activate it.
virtualenv SmartED
To activate on MAC use
source SmartED/bin/activate
and on Windows use
SmartED\Scripts\activate
Virtualenv allows us to keep track of our dependencies throughout the build. If
we add python libraries during development, simply running
pip3 freeze > requirements.txt saves the changes for everyone.
To install the necessary dependencies begin with
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Now enter into the project directory cd SmartEducation and run the webserver
python manage.py runserver.
To build the reactapp for django to use, first navigate to the reactapp directory.
/smarteducation/reactapp/
Then, if it is the first time building or new node packages have been added, run npm install to install all node dependencies.
Then, run npm run build.
this will build all the react components in an index.html file which django uses.
After this, django can be run normally (i.e. cd to /smarteducation/ and run python manage.py runserver), and the base url localhost:8000 will now show the contents of the compiled reactapp.
npm run build should be ran each time there is changes to the react app