MurphyAdam / formy

Formy is very simple search form for searching places (businesses, landmarks, locations, etc) with the help of Google Places.

Formy

This is a simple places search app made with the help of Google Places

This project is split into two parts: Front-end (client) and back-end (server) The docs below shall help you get started to run the application on your local machine, or deploy it.

Stack

This project uses the following stack:

1. Python
2. JavasScript/ TypeScript
3. Django and Django-rest-framework
4. React + Redux
5. REST
6. Material-UI/ CSCC

Demo

Demo deployed on a pipeline on Heroku connected to our GitHub (Automatic deploys)

https://formy-search.herokuapp.com/

Get started

If you would like to run the build without installing the client side (Node modules), Please skip the Client part below

Client

If you would like to run the client server, please make sure you have the latest Node.js version >= 16, alongside a package manager such as yarn or npm (this project uses yarn), and follow the steps below:

1. in the root directory of client where the package.json file is located, use your favourite package manager to install the client dependencies. E.g: yarn or npm install

2. spin the development server up. in your terminal, according to your package manager, run the local server by typing either yarn start or npm run start. This should start a local development server at 127.0.0.1, port 3000

Backend

• Requirments:

  This project is written in Python 3.9 using django 3.2.8 and django-rest-framework 3.12.4

• Install:

  Please create a virtual environment and install the project requirements found in the file requirements.txt.

Tests

• backend: To run the tests, please run python manage.py test in the server

• front-end: To run the tests, please run yarn test in the client dir