Django + Gatsby : Auction Application

This is a demo application built with Django and Gatsby.

The project hierarchy is as follows:

Root
    |
    |__ backend
    |__ frontend
    |__ README.md
    |__ requirements.txt

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Prerequisites

Project Backend is built with Django and frontend with Gatsby. It has been tested with the following:

Backend

1. Python 3.6.8
2. virtualenv 20.2.2

Frontend

1. [email protected]
2. Gatsby CLI version: 3.4.0
3. Gatsby version: 3.14.2

How to run the Backend

In a Terminal:

1. First go to the root directory.
2. Create a virtual enviornment with virualenv env
3. Activate the virual enviornment:
   • Windows: env\Scripts\activate
   • Linux: source env/bin/activate
4. Install requirements pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Goto the backend directory cd backend.
6. Create all the database migrations python manage.py makemigrations.
7. Run all the created database migrations python manage.py migrate.
8. Create a super user python manage.py createsuperuser and follow the wizard.
9. Load dummy data python manage.py loaddata data.js.
10. Run the project python manage.py runserver

How to run the Frontend

In a Terminal

1. From the root goto the frontend directory cd frontend.
2. Install the requirements npm install
3. Run the project npm run develop.

Accessing the Backend

You can access the backend admin section when running the default dev server with http://localhost:8000/admin with the admin credentials that you setup in the step 8 above. Backend API is exposed on the base URL http://localhost:8000/api

Accessing the Frontend

Access the frontend with http://localhost:3500/

There are two users created when running the dummy data command above in step 9 with the following credentials:

username: user1
password: 123

username: user2
password: 123

You can login with these to test out the system.