ullebe1 / web

Frontend and api for academy

Academy Web Server

Frontend and api server for Academy.

Installation

Install Python 3.9 and create a virtual environment:

python -mvenv ~/.cache/venvs/academy-web

Inside the virtual enviroment install pip-tools and install our dependencies with pip-sync:

pip install pip-tools
pip-sync requirements.txt dev-requirements.txt

Install pre-commit hook to ensure files are formatted correctly:

pre-commit install

Then apply the database migrations:

./manage.py migrate

Running

To start the server locally run:

./manage.py runserver

Compiling Svelte components

Some views uses Svelte components, which needs to be compiled. To do this, run the following:

cd svelte
./build_components

Generating Facebook access token

• Create a Facebook app: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ (Disable uBlock Origin)
• Open the Graph API explorer: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer
• Generate a User Token with permission pages_manage_posts
• Run ./get_facebook_access_token with the required arguments. It will output a Page Access Token that will never expire.