Instant Paint Estimates is a simple Django web app for instant house painting estimates. It allows a user to get a free online painting quote and also emails the quote to the user and the contractor.
See it in action:
https://fluidestimates.herokuapp.com/instantpaintestimate/
Running locally:
- If cloning the project to run locally you will need to update the database settings, SECRET_KEY settings and EMAIL_PASSWORD in the settings.py file as they are currently set to run on Heroku * You will also need to comment the: django_heroku.settings(locals()) line
The home page is: http://127.0.0.1:8000/instantpaintestimate/
Quick start clone the git repo into a local folder and transfer the instantpaintestimate folder into your Django project
Create a virual environment and run: pip install -r requirements.txt from the root of the project
create a file named "secrets.sh"
eg. touch secrets.sh (mac and linux)
obtain a secret from: https://www.miniwebtool.com/django-secret-key-generator/ and add to secrets.sh
export SECRET_KEY='<secret_key>'
add secrets.sh to .gitignore file
Add to your Django project INSTALLED_APPS section of the settings file like this:
INSTALLED_APPS = [ ... 'instantpaintestimate.apps.InstantpaintestimateConfig', 'widget_tweaks', 'bootstrapform', 'bootstrap_datepicker', 'datetimewidget' ]
Include the instantpaintestimate URLconf in your Django project urls.py file like this:
path('instantpaintestimate/', include('instantpaintestimate.urls')),
create a postgres db and add the credentials to settings.py
DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', 'NAME': 'estimatesdb', 'USER': 'name', 'PASSWORD': '', 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '', } }
In your Django project directory, run: python manage.py migrate to create the instantpaintestimate models.
The create an admin account:
python manage.py createsuperuser
then:
python manage.py makemigrations instantpaintestimate to makemigrations for the app
then again run:
python manage.py migrate
Start the development server: python manage.py runserver
visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ to create paint estimate pricing properties.
Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/instantpaintestimate/ to submit an estimte.
If you need help with a Django project, please email me at: boris@boriswebappdevelopment.ca or visit my website and fill out the contact form at: https://www.boriswebappdevelopment.ca/