Hello! Below is something I posted on #sigweb (I believe) a couple days ago. This is just an update and no final decisions have been made yet. Please read this and get back to me ASAP! I need people who are really interested to tell me that they want in. If you want in let me know where you feel strongest working (front or back end) let me know. If you don't know where you'd fit best message me and we will figure something out. We need to really get cranking on this really really quick. Join #sigweb for more updates and let me know if you have absolutely any questions and better sooner than later! Thank You!
"I've been messing around with Django. For our purposes it might be the better option. We can always use node and express but we'll have to do a crap ton of formatting. If we use Django we shouldn't have to do that. I'm open to see what everyone else thinks. Once we make a final decision on which one to use the people wo want to help will need to really work on learning the framework. I've found various YouTube videos that show you how to configure, run, develop, and deploy the apps. If we do the Node route there will be considerably large amounts of JS. If we do the Django route there is a lot of Python. If we do the Django route we should be able to leave a majority of the site the way it is right now but adding it to a views folder where we can let Django do the rendering for us and we don't have to mess with special formatting (unless we want to). If I remember right the general consensus is that there are more people who are familiar with python and less with JS. Might be easier to go the Django route in my mind. If we decide to make a Django based app I will want two different "teams". One to handle front end stuff and the other to do backend. I will probably do a lot of the backend programming along with anyone who is strong in python. I don't know if we've progressed past where we could do this in an agile manner but I need to talk to people to see what is left to be done. What I really really need is motivation from people who want to help though. I know the project has been a stick in the mud recently and I haven't helped that but I absolutely need people who really want to be a part of this. I'm going to try finishing up a test app I have been working on with Django but I should be able to recycle a lot of it to do this."
cd ~
mkdir Development
cd Development
git clone https://github.com/jake32321/SalukiLAN_Django_Base
sudo pip install virtualenv virtualenvwrapper Django==1.6.5
cd SalukiLAN_Django_Base
virtualenv .
source bin/activate
sudo pip install south
export VIRTUAL_ENV="$HOME/Development/SalukiLAN_Django_Base"
export PATH="$HOME/Development/SalukiLAN_Django_Base/bin:$PATH"
python src/manage.py runserver
##Making URLs For the Site ####Definining A Function For Requests Each of the pages or "views" made will need to have a way that the page can be accessed. This can be done using a function and will need to be done this way to work properly with Django. The example bellow shows how this can be done using a function.
def reserve_a_seat(req):
print req
context = {"form": form}
template = "#nameoftemplate"
return render(req, template, context)This will need to be done in src/joins/views.py following the other functions. Other items can be added to the function for forms and the like.
####Adding The URL To The Site
Once the above task has been completed you will need to add the function to a URL. This can be done in src/app/urls.py by adding the following python under the rest of the code.
url(r'^urlnamehere/', 'joins.views.addfunctnamehere', name='nameforurlhere')This should be all that needs to be done for the most part when adding a new view. Remember to add the HTML doc to the templates folder under src/templates which is where the other templates are being stored at.