Mazaryn Social Network

Description

Distributed Social Network that allows users interact with each other as well as offering a social market place platform.

Prerequsites

The following depenencies need to be installed for smooth running

1. django
2. pillow
3. django restframework
4. django-cors-headers
5. channels
6. channels-redis
7. djoser
8. django-friendship
9. drf_yasg

Open terminal/command prompt and run:

• python manage.py migrate
• python manage.py createsuperuser

Set up postgres guide for linux:

1. Install postgres

sudo apt update
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib

2. Access postgres console: sudo -i -u postgres OR sudo -u postgres psql

3. change password command f \password postgres

4. Add database create database mazaryn;

5. Set following os constants

DATABASE_NAME
DATABASE_USER
DATABASE_PASSWORD
DATABASE_HOST
DATABASE_PORT

5. Migrate models: python manage.py migrate

For mac users, please make the following adjustments before installing the dependencies

1. Install Rust (use brew)
2. Install libmagic (use pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14)
3. Update pip to the latest version