django-react-blog

Blog web application written using Javascript with React for Frontend, Python with Django for Backend and PostgreSQL as a default database.

Features

• Publish posts as a verified staff member
• Read public posts
• Write/read comments
• Fully functional user with password veryfing/reseting using e-mail
• Authentication thanks to JWT Tokens

Screenshots

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Installation

1. First clone the repository to use it localy:

    git clone https://github.com/syqu22/flask-pastebin.git

   Then install all required libraries through:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Rename the .env.sample to .env, then fill it with all the needed keys. POSTGRES is for the database access, EMAIL is for the email authentication and SECRET_KEY is the secret key for the application.

3. Now you need to create a Postgre database with name blog_db then do all the migrations using command:

    py manage.py makemigrations

   and:

    py manage.py migrate

4. For the frontend you need to run these commands from the /frontend folder:

    npm install

   to download all the needed NPM packages and then to start the frontend Dev server:

    npm run dev

5. Finally you can start the frontend server from base project folder by running:

    py manage.py runserver