nicholaskajoh/krak.lol

Django web app.

Krak.lol

Krak.lol is a social site for comedy. It's built on the Django web framework.

Project dependencies

This project will use the latest versions of its dependencies as soon as it has been tested with them.

• Django (Web dev framework)
• Pillow (Imaging library)
• BeautifulSoup4 (Screen-scraping)
• AnyMail (Email Backends)
• Django-Watson (Full-text Search)
• Django-Crontab (Scheduled Tasks)
• Django-Admin-View-Permission (Admin permissions)
• Django-REST-framework (API)

NB: Some of these dependencies have their own dependencies.

Run pip install -r requirements.txt during initial setup.

Docs

The docs of each part of the project can be found in the READMEs of those parts.

Dev

The settings module contains local and production settings. In development, run: :

# UNIX Bash Shell
export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=krak.settings.local

# Windows Shell
set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=krak.settings.local

DB

This project uses PostgreSQL in production. As such, it's important you use same in development to avoid unecessary issues. Install postgres on your local machine and use with the DB params in the local settings file.