A newsletter app where a user can subscribe to various newsletters simultaneously and will receive the issues over their emails regularly.
- Python 3+ version
- Pipenv
- Clone the project
- Install celery
- Install dotenv for reading settings from the environment.
- Install psycopg2-binary for connecting with Postgres.
pipenv install celery
pipenv install python-dotenv
pipenv install psycopg2-binary
Create a .envfile and assign the secrets.
CDEMAIL_HOST=$CDEMAIL_HOST
EMAIL_USE_TLS=True
EMAIL_PORT=$EMAIL_PORT
EMAIL_HOST_USER=$EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=$EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
CELERY_BROKER_URL="pyamqp://localhost:5672"
SECRET_KEY=$SECRET_KEY
DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:password@localhost:5432/postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
APP_DOMAIN=*
DEBUG=True
- Run docker-compose to start the dependencies:
docker-compose up - Generate migrations for our models:
python manage.py makemigrations - To apply generated migrations to database run:
python manage.py migrate - To create a user for login run the following command and provide your details:
python manage.py createsuperuser - Run the following command to run the app and open http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin to open Django Admin :
python manage.py runserver - Run celery:
celery -A newsletter_site worker --loglevel=INFO
Add a newsletter and a subscriber and subscribe them to it. Create an issue and send it. If everything is fine you will see an issue arriving in your email.
Refer blog post : https://medium.com/@_nancychauhan/introduction-to-message-queue-build-a-newsletter-app-using-django-celery-and-rabbitmq-in-30-min-6d484162391d