A Social Networking platform for sharing ideas

Lightbulbs is a semester project that we created as part of our semester project for CS114. It is an idea sharing platform that brings like minded people together to share and discuss ideas.

Follow the steps below to get a local copy of the project up and running on your machine.

git clone https://github.com/hanif-ali/lightbulbs.git

Alternatively you can download the ZIP from the top of this page.

cd into the directory and create a Virtual Environment by running

py -m venv env

To activate the virtual environment run env\Scripts\activate.bat in Command Prompt or env\Scripts\activate in Windows Powershell.

To install the dependencies, run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run cd lightbulbs to move into the inner lightbulbs directory and run

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Run the localhost using

python manage.py runserver

Since the database has not data yet, you will only be able to see the Home Pages. You will not be able to create a superuser through createsuperuser because te app uses modified User Model. So you will need to add the pre-defined superUser model in UserFixture.json using the steps mentioned in the next section.

The steps are same as above. Except, you may need to replace py with python3 while creating the Virtual Environments. If your Python 3 executable is pointed to by python, run that. Moreover, the virtual environment is activated by running env/bin/activate.

To Load the SuperUser fixture, run

python manage.py loaddata UserFixture.json

The default Super User Credentials are:

• Username: root_user
• Password: root_password

You can change it from https://localhost:8000/admin

To load Dummy data for testing purposes, run

python manage.py loaddata DummyData.json

You can open DummyData.json with your favorite text editor to see the data being added. All Users added have the password dummy_password

If you want to contribute any feature to the application, fork this repository and Submit a pull request once you think it is ready to merge. Create issues to report bugs or suggest any form of changes. All forms of contribution are highly welcomed. :)