juxd / a3-backend

Backend

Initial setup

0. Prerequisites: Check here

1. Install Pipenv

   MacOS:

   $ brew install pipenv

   pip:

   $ pip install pipenv

2. Install the shit

   $ pipenv install --dev

3. Get into the environment shell

   $ pipenv shell

4. Make sure you've migrated the shit

   $ python3 manage.py migrate

5. Run the shit

   $ python3 manage.py runserver

Redis setup

This step is necessary to use web sockets. Instructions taken from here

1. Download build dependencies

   $ sudo apt-get update
   $ sudo apt-get install build-essential tcl

2. Download and extract source code
   Since we won’t need to keep the source code that we’ll compile long term (we can always re-download it), we will build in the /tmp directory. Let’s move there now:

   $ cd /tmp

   Now, download the latest stable version of Redis. This is always available at a stable download URL:

   $ cd curl -O http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz

   Unpack the tarball by typing:

   $ tar xzvf redis-stable.tar.gz

   Move into the Redis source directory structure that was just extracted:

   $ cd redis-stable

3. Build and install redis

   $ make
   $ sudo make install

4. Launch redis server. Presumedly, this is the step that will always have to be run when restarting the environment.

   $ redis-cli

   Make sure that the server is opened at port 6379. If it's not, try:

   $ redis-server --port 6379