A django project to return the current weather forecast in cities

Key Features • Docker Set Up

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Key Features

City Search

The main purpose of the weather report app is the city search with uses the OpenWeather API. This will return the current weather forecast in a city found using this API.

The results are saved to the cache for a default time of 5 minutes. This can be updated through changing the environment variable: CACHE_TIMEOUT

Languages

The weather report app currently supports 3 languages:

• English
• German
• French

You can select and update the language in the top nav bar.

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Docker Set Up

In the root of the repository:

• Copy and paste django.local.env and rename to django.env
• Create a free openweather account at https://openweathermap.org/ and update OPEN_WEATHER_API_KEY to your api key
• In the command line run

docker-compose up --build -d

• When all of your containers have successfully been built, navigate to http://localhost:8000/ and enjoy 🎉