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Language: Python 3.5.2
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Framework: Django 2.0.1
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DB: SQLite
- Registration module:
- Email intput validation (non-empty check, case-insensitive valid format check, non-exist check)
- Location select validation (non-empty, valid format)
- US city choices ranked by population (high to low)
- Registration successful page confirmation
- Weather module:
- Real-time weather information (current & history) from Wundergroud API
- [Future] Save history temperature data (from cache) to db, good for performance on same-date repeating request
- Email module:
- Personalized email content for each user, according to city
- Rich email content, including user-specific subject, body and image
- Used customized Django template and forms in creating frond-end pages
- Parameterized development on Weather and Email modules, future change only need to modify parameters
- Used cache for weather data and email content to optimize performance by avoiding making repeated API request
- Used Django management command for the email-sending task, simple as 1-click
- Used regular expression in weather string pattern detection
a) Copy the whole weather_email project directory
b) Change outgoing email server configurations in ./main_site/main_site/settings.py 
c) Source python virtual environment:
$ source weather_email/venv/bin/activate
d) Run Django Server
$ python3 weather_email/main_site/manage.py runserver
e) Open browser, open http://127.0.0.1:8000/weather_app or http://127.0.0.1:8000/weather_app/register
f) (Register some emails)
g) To send email, in command_line:
$ python3 weather_email/main_site/manage.py sendEmail
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Good weather email:
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Bad weather email:
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Normal weather email:
