We Meet: London Cafes Django Project

Web App that displays curated places/cafes to Hack in London

Content

1. Description
2. Setup
3. Contributing

Description

This is volunteer idea to create a web app that will display and allow searching of curated cafes places that are team friendly to go and spend some time hacking together on a project.

The user can come to the website and search bases on London postcode/locations to find a curated list of cafes matching that criteria. The cafes should be shown on a map as well. Each cafe will be handpicked and “features” ranked like wifi signal, how great is the coffee/food and space etc.

Tech

• Django (a Python framework)
• Front end SASS/HTML5 and a frontend framework perhaps Bootstrap or Concise CSS
• Gulp or Grunt for frontend build
• Possibly JS for some interactions/ lazy loading images etc
• Github
• Heroku for free hosting
• Perhaps AWS/Cloud Flare CDN for image storage
• Github Issues for tasks
• Slack for group chats/standups etc

Team

• Bibiana - Back End
• Emiliana - Back End, Front End
• Ichi - Back End
• Karen - Front End
• Lili - PM, Front End, Back End
• Lucy - Front-end
• Nandhini - Back End, Front End
• Natalia - Front End
• [Nori] (https://github.com/denesnori) - Back End, Front End
• Nuria - Front End (Learning)
• Raquel - Back End, Front End
• Carly - Back End

Setup

Tools

1. Terminal: iTerm2 (MacOSX), Terminator (Linux) or use your preffered one.
2. Text Editor: Sublime Text or you preffered one.

Dev Enviroment Setup

1. Install Git

2. Clone the repo: git clone [email protected]:womenhackfornonprofits/london-cafes-django.git

3. Get Virtual Env

4. Get virtualend wrapper

5. Create a new virtual enviroment for the project mkvirtualenv london_cafes

6. Use this enviroment or change to this from another by using: workon london_cafes

7. Go to project folder: pip install -r requirements.txt

8. Go to project folder: pip install -r requirements.test

9. Get Postgres

10. Create empty db for now locally, createdb london_cafes

11. Start the server: python manage.py runserver

12. Go inside frontend folder:

    cd frontend

13. Install all the dependencies:

    npm install

Running the project locally

1. Go inside the django app directory:

   cd london_cafes

2. Run django server:

   python manage.py runserver

3. The project is now running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/, go to that address in your browser.

Front End changes

1. Make css and javascript changes in the frontend folder
2. Make any HTML changes in the Django templates located in london_cafes/london_cafes/templates
3. Use grunt default in the frontend folder to build, watch and copy all the required files automatically into the Django static folder.

Contributing

Please follow a few guidelines in order to contribute to the project:

1. Pick an issue in the backlog and assign it to yourself.
2. Always create a new branch git branch branch_name and all changes you make should be in that branch.
3. Make the changes needed then save and commit them:
   • Use git status to see what changes there are that can be committed.
   • To add a file to be commited: git add filename (this will stage the file for a commit)
   • Once all files you want to commit are added you can commit the changes git commit and make sure to add a meaningful message to describe what changes you have made.
4. [Raise a Pull Request](## How to raise a Pull Request ) so other teammembers can review the changes before they are merged5.
5. Have at least 1 team member review your code (ideally 2) and once you receive a 👍 you can merge the code.

How to raise a Pull Request

In order to raise a Pull Request with your changes:

• Save and commit your changes
• Push your changes and create a pull request: git push origin your_branch_name
• Go to the repo and you should see a green button "Raise a Pull Request"
• Describe all the changes you have made in details and save.