Portfolio website that showcases projects, work experiences and education history using Django. Contents are customizable through the admin site. (The old site can be found here)

• Python 3
• Python Virtual Environment
• Django

First, clone the repository to the machine, then active the python virtual environment

git clone https://github.com/jiachengzhang1/portfolio-web.git
source path/to/active/file/active/

Go into the repository directory, install required packages

cd /path/to/the/repository/
pip install -r requirements.txt

The application uses SQLite in development and PostgreSQL in production. Django automatically creates a SQLite database for the application, so no extra settings required for development. Use manage.py to migrate.

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Create a superuser, follow the prompts to set up the credential which is used for admin login.

python manage.py createsuperuser

To start the application,

python manage.py runserver

Now, the application is running on the localhost port 8000 http://127.0.0.1:8000. You can create the contents through the admin page http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin.

DigitialOcean has very good instructions on deploying Django application with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn.

In addition, compile SCSS files before run collectstatic,

python manage.py compilescss
python manage.py collectstatic

Learn more about django-sass-processor through their GitHub repository

• Django - The web application framework used
• django-sass-processor - Compile SASS/SCSS files on the fly
• PostgreSQL - The database used by the application (producation)
• SQLite - The database used by the application (development)

Jiacheng Zhang

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

The design of the website is inspired by jtom.me and andrewborstein.com