django-blog-full

Overview

This is my attempt at building a blog website using Django to resharpen my skills again. This is just an application with minimum styling with Bootstrap & CSS. The functionality is full with login, logout, register, post view, post detail view, post by user view, profile, etc.

Setup

The first thing to do is to clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/itzmidinesh/django-blog-full.git
$ cd django-blog-full

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

$ virtualenv venv
$ venv/Scripts/activate

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Install project dependencies:

(venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Note the (venv) in front of the prompt. This indicates that this terminal session operates in a virtual environment set up by virtualenv.

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Once pip has finished installing the dependencies, apply the migrations and run the development server:

(venv)$ cd blog
(venv)$ python manage.py migrate
(venv)$ python manage.py runserver

And navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/articles/

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If you want to use the admin page, create a superuser:

(env)$ python manage.py createsuperuser

And navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

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You can register from the Navigation bar at the top of the page and add posts as well.