Group Project - Code Platoon Central

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• Code Platoon Central

Why?

As any people know, coding bootcamps are tough. One way that my group thought of to make it just a little easier, was to centralize all of the info, curriculum, feedback and forums into a central app. Our ultimate goal was to pack as many resources from our coding bootcamp experience as we could into one location. Some of the notable features that we are replacing or integrating into our app are Slack, Github, Google Forms and Google Calendar

Technologies and Frameworks

• React.js
• Django (Django Rest Framework)
• MySQL and PostgreSQL
• JWT
• AWS
• Git / GitHub

Setup

Clone repo (take note of ending dot if you don't want to make another subfolder)

git clone https://github.com/aidanmatchette/cp_central.git .

python -m venv .venv

(Windows) Go into virtual environment

.venv/scripts/activate.ps1

(Mac/Linux) Go into virtual environment

source venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make .env file (from template)

cp .env.sample .env

Update .env file

• Add django secret key
• Set DEBUG=true for local development
• Set REACT_APP_URL_PREFIX=http://localhost:8000 (or wherever you would run the django server)

python manage.py migrate

npm install

python manage.py runserver

npm run start

(Optional) if you want to serve the app from django or host in cloud

change .env variables (changing debug is optional if not deploying)

DEBUG=false
REACT_APP_URL_PREFIX=

npm run build