The Wall App

The Wall App is a website that allows users to register, login, and write on a wall.

Features

Registration / Login: Anonymous users can create a new user and this new user receives a welcome email. New users can then log in.
Wall (authed): After logging in, a user can post messages on the site-wide wall, similar to a Facebook wall except there is only one wall for the entire site.
Wall (guest): Guests as well as authed users can see all of the messages on the wall.

Install virtualenv

On macOS and Linux:

$ python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

On Windows:

$ py -m pip install --user virtualenv

Create virtualenv

On macOS and Linux:

$ python3 -m venv env

On Windows:

$ py -m venv env

Activate virtualenv

$ source env/bin/activate

Install all project dependencies

$ pip install -r /requirements.txt

You can run the application from the command line with manage.py. Go to the root folder of the application.

First run:

$ cd app/

Run migrations:

$ python manage.py migrate

Run server on port 8000:

$ python manage.py runserver 8000

It is recommended to run the app using docker:

here you can read more about docker

Build the Docker image:

$ docker-compose up --build

To run the unit tests, run this command inside app folder:

$ python manage.py test && flake8

If you are using docker, run this command inside app folder:

$ docker-compose run app sh -c "python manage.py test && flake8"

Postman API collection link: wall-api Postman collection