ZC-COMPANY HOLIDAY CALENDAR PLUGIN

Team Plugin-holiday-calendar

This is a a calendar plugin that allows users with different privledges have access to some or all of the calendar features.features like creation of event,holiday notfications etc. This plug in is a monolithic plugin.

Technologies used are

• Html.
• Css.
• Javascript.
• Python.

Frontend framework used

• ReactJs

Backend framework used

• Django.
• Django rest framework.
• Djongo (MongoDB database engine for django)

To work on this project:

• Fork the repo
• Clone the repo to your system
• Switch to the develop branch

git checkout -b develop

• Set your github repo as the remote for your local git repo:

git remote add <unique_remote_name> <github_repo_url>.git

e.g

git remote add origin https://github.com/Ifeadewumi/zc_plugin_company_holiday_calendar.git

DO NOT ADD THE ZURI_HOLIDAY_CALENDAR PLUGIN REPO AS YOUR REMOTE.

• Navigate to the relevant folder (calendar_frontend or calendar_backend)
• Do your work
• Stage the changed files you'll like to upload:

git add *

for all files. replace * with specific file names if you're only interested in those files.

• Commit to the develop branch with a clear, descriptive message and issue number, e.g.

git commit -m "Fixed models and bugs for leave request as per issue #1299."

• Push to the develop branch of the remote repo:

git push -u origin develop

• Do a pull request to the develop branch

Installation instructions for frontend

Installation instructions for backend

• Make sure you are in a virtual environment.
  • You can use the virtualenv package. If it's not installed on your local machine, install from your terminal, using

  pip install virtualenv
  

  • Once you have virtualenv on your machine, create a virtual environment with a name you choose:

  virtualenv <environment_name>
  

  • Next, activate the environment:

  <environment_name>\Scripts\activate
  

• Navigate to the calendar_backend/calendar_backend folder
• Install the packages in the requirements.txt file

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Once you're done, you can use pip freeze > requirements.txt to update the requirements.txt file if you installed new packages during your work. Otherwise, there's no need to pip freeze.
• Exit the virtual environment with

deactivate

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Steps to install virtualenv for for backend:

• Browse to the calendar_backend folder.
• type pip install virtualenv to install virtualenv
• type virtualenv venv to create venv folder
• activate the venv by typing source venv/bin/activate if you are using linux or type venv/Scripts/activate.bat if you are using windows.
• install all dependencies on the requirements.txt by typing pip install -r requirements.txt to install all at once.