andreas-andersen/wishlist

Django Wishlist App

Wishlist.app

A django app for creating gift exchange groups and wish list assignments

Heroku deployment

The app has the following features:

• General user interface (sign-up, login, etc.)
• Interface for user-based management of groups
• Interface for creating wish lists
• Interface for choosing wish list assignment method and distributing wish lists among group memebers (both manual and random)
• Rudimentary notification system

Dependencies:

Wishlist.app uses following packages:

• django
• environs
• gunicorn
• numpy (for random assignment algorithms)
• psycopg2
• environs
• reportlab and xhtml2pdf (for generating basic wish list print-outs)
• six (for generating user activation tokens)
• whitenoise

Reflections and improvement potential:

This is my first django project. I had only had experience following the excellenet tutorials provided by the "Django for..." books by William S. Vincent. The requirements for the project also grew organically, and there is thus a distinct feeling of "progression" in my coding style from what I wrote at the beginning compared to the end.

For example, I was trying to do everything within the class-based view system. This would inevitably prove too complex for pages containing two forms, complex POST functionalities etc and I opted for creating my own function based views. (This is a technique that would have saved a tremendous amount of pain had I learned earlier). I would also have opted for a Sass approach to styling (my css looks very messy at this point), and have a more structured approach to the naming of models, views, templates etc. The admin section could also do with some improvements.

In terms of additional features, these come to mind:

• Internationalization / Localization.
• Implementation of a mobile version

But this will probably be in a different project.

Other Acknowledgements:

• Icons by flaticon

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