About

Full Stack Application for developers to share their projects

• Search the developers, projects, skills using keywords
  
• Get detailed information about developer
  
• Get detailed information about each project
  
• After user is logged in, user is redirected to Edit profile section, where user can add information such as profile picture, bio, skills
• For logged in users the My Account section is available, user can perform CRUD operations to add new projects and skills, delete those, as well as update
  
• Logged in users can leave comments and vote for the projects, this way project's rating is calculated
  
• Pagination implemented
  
• Login/Logout/Register
  
• In Progress: Translation to a different language

Setup

1. The first thing to do is to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/AnastasiaLunina/django-wecode.git
$ cd django-wecode

2. Create a virtual environment to install dependencies in and activate it:

$ python3 -m venv ./env

# Mac/Linux
$ source env/bin/activate

# Windows
venv\Scripts\activate.bat

# Exit venv
deactivate

4. Then install the dependencies:

(env)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Once pip has finished downloading the dependencies:

(env)$ cd project
(env)$ python manage.py runserver

6. And navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

⭐ Search and Pagination

Search implemented by quering the value of search_query attribute from a template
Pagination implemented using Paginator class built in in Django

landing.search.pagination.mp4

⭐ Login

Used User class from built in Django authentication system, I got user data from the request.POST and then query it with objects.get method from User class instance passing username as an argument. Then using authenticate method check if the given credentials are valid, return a User object. Then redirect user to the same page user was before log in by adding ?next={{request.path}} to URL

login.mp4

⭐ Register

register user with user_register method in a view and accessing the data from CustomUserCreationForm which inherits from built in UserCreationForm class in django.contrib.auth.forms. After user is regerested and logged in, user redirected to edit profile section.

⭐ Edit profile

Used built in decorator @login_required(login_url='login') to run the method only if user is logged in.
Pass request as an argument into the edit_profile method. Django uses request and response objects to pass state through the system. When a page is requested, Django creates an HttpRequest object that contains metadata about the request. Then Django loads the appropriate view, passing the request as the first argument to the view function.
Then getting particular user with request.user.profile and adding instance=profile as an argument to ProfileForm pre-render user's information in form

register.and.edit.profile.mp4

⭐ CRUD operations with skills

Used built in decorator @login_required(login_url='login') to run the function only if user is logged in. Then getting particular user with request.user.profile and adding instance=profile as an argument to ProfileForm pre-render user's information in form

Create

getting particular user profile = request.user.profile

accessing the data from model creating an instance of SkillForm class form = SkillForm(request.POST) checking if the form is valid with built in method form.is_valid() Then using form.save() method to create the skill.

Update

getting particular user profile = request.user.profile

accessing the data from model form = SkillForm(request.POST, instance=skill) creating an instance of SkillForm class checking if the form is valid with built in form.is_valid() Then using form.save() method to update the skill. This method creates and saves a database object from the data bound to the form. A subclass of ModelForm can accept an existing model instance as the keyword argument instance; if this is supplied, save() will update that instance. If it’s not supplied, save() will create instead of update a new instance of the specified model:

Delete

Getting a particular user profile = request.user.profile Quering needed skill from all skills skill = profile.skill_set.get(id=pk) Then delete it useng skill.delete() method

skills.CRUD.mp4

⭐ Sending welcome messages when new user created

getting current recipient recipient = Profile.objects.get(id=pk)`

creating an instance of MessageForm class form = MessageForm()

To send messages following settings configurations needed EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com' EMAIL_PORT = 587 EMAIL_USE_TLS = True EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'email.email@gmail.com' EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password' in signals.py

sending.messages.mp4

⭐ Inbox mail

inbox.mp4

⭐ Informational Messages

Used django.contrib.messages.api to send the notifications throughout the app.