Academic and Co-Curricular Activity Council IITJ

Web portal and forum for Students' Gymkhana of IIT Jodhpur

Purpose

Simplify the workflow of updating the gymkhana website without much knowledge on how to code. And also provide certain utility features.

This project includes:

• A main web portal which can be updated dynamically through an admin interface.
• A forum/discussion app for general purpose discussions.
• An app called Konnekt to find/search people with a certain required skill set.

Installation:

Requirements:

• Python 3.6 runtime
• Django >= 3.2.9
• Other dependencies in Pipfile

Procedure:

Setup Frontend:

If you haven't already, install the vue-cli service:
npm install -g @vue/cli

Then follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/devlup-labs/gymkhana-acac

cd <project-directory>/acac_frontend/

npm install

• Compiles and hot-reloads for development

npm run serve

• Compiles and minifies for production

npm run build

• Lints and fixes files

npm run lint

Setup Backend:

Make sure you have python 3.6 and pipenv installed on your pc.

Then follow these steps:

cd <project-directory>/acac_backend/

cp .env.example .env

pipenv --python 3.6 install --dev

• Activate the new virtual environment:

pipenv shell

• Make database migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

• Create a superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

• Run development server on localhost

python manage.py runserver

Dummy Data for Testing [OPTIONAL]:

This will populate the database with random values for testing:

python manage.py createfixture