kevinbowen777 / message-board

A basic web message board using Django framework

message-board

message-board is a simple text posting application built with the Django 4.2.x web framework

Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Testing
• Application Demo
• Screenshots
• Reporting Bugs

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Features

• Application

  • Post simple text messages
  • User registration with email verification & social(GitHub) login using django-allauth
  • Bootstrap4 & crispy-forms decorations
  • Customizable user profile pages with bio, profile pic, & country flags
  • For additional links to package resources used in this repository, see the Package Index

• Dev/testing

  • Basic module testing templates
  • Coverage reports in htmlcov directory
  • Debug-toolbar available. See notes in config/settings.py for enabling.
  • Examples of using Factories & pytest fixtures in account app testing
  • shell_plus with IPython via django-extensions package
  • Nox testing sessions for latest Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, and 3.12
    • black (nox -s black)
    • Sphinx documentaion generation (nox -s lint)
    • linting
      • flake8
      • flake8-bandit
      • flake8-bugbear
      • flake8-import-order
    • safety(python package vulnerability testing) (nox -s safety)
    • pytest sessions with pytest-cov & pytest-django (coverage run -m pytest)

• run command menu

  (adapted from Nick Janetakis' helpful docker-django-example)

  You can run ./run to get a list of commands and each command has documentation in the run file itself. This comes in handy to run various Docker commands because sometimes these commands can be a bit long to type.

  If you get tired of typing ./run you can always create a shell alias with alias run=./run in your ~/.bash_aliases or equivalent file. Then you'll be able to run run instead of ./run.

Installation

• git clone https://github.com/kevinbowen777/message-board.git
• cd message-board
• Local installation:
  • poetry shell
  • poetry install
  • python manage.py migrate
  • python manage.py createsuperuser
  • python manage.py runserver
• Docker installation:
  • docker compose up --build
  • docker compose exec web python manage.py migrate
  • docker compose exec web python manage.py createsuperuser Additional commands:
    • docker compose exec web python manage.py shell_plus (loads Django shell autoloading project models & classes)
    • docker run -it message-board-web bash (CLI access to container)
• Browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000 or http://127.0.0.1:8000/resources/
• Pre-commit:
  • To add the hook, run the following command in the poetry shell:
    • pre-commit install

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Testing

• docker compose exec web python manage.py test
• coverage run -m pytest
• Nox (includes sessions for black, lint, safety, tests)
  • testing supported for Python 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
  • e.g. nox, nox -rs lint-3.11, nox -s tests
    • nox
    • nox -s black-3.12
    • nox -s docs-3.11
    • nox -rs lint-3.9 (Use the 'r' flag to reuse existing session)
    • nox -s safety (will run tests against all Python versions)
    • nox -s tests

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Application Demo

TBD

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Screenshots

Home

Message Index

Profile Page

Login Page

New Message

Edit Message

Delete Message

Email Address management

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Reporting Bugs

Visit the Issues page to view currently open bug reports or open a new issue.