Rosie Maguire - She Codes News Project

About This Project

This project uses HTML, CSS and the Django framework. It is a news website that allows users to read news stories, and authors to create them.

Prerequisites

• python
• pip
• unrestricted execution policy (Windows requirement)

How To Run This Code

• Clone a copy of this repo to your local machine. This can be done in the command line by navigating to the desired directory, then running:

    git clone https://github.com/rosiemaguire/django-project-she-codes-news.git
  

• Once you have a local version of this repository, you'll need to set up your virtual environment:

  • navigate to the folder that contains the requirements.txt file

  • If you're on a windows machine, run the command

      . venv/Scripts/activate
    

  • If you're on a mac, run the command

      source venv/bin/activate
    

  • Install the Django library:

      python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
    

  • Check installation was successful:

      python -m pip freeze
    

  • Change directory to where manage.py is located:

      cd she_codes_news
    

  • Make the inital migrations:

      python manage.py migrate
    

  • Load the template data for the news articles by running these two commands:

      python manage.py loaddata users
      python manage.py loaddata news
    

  • Now with everything set up, you'll just need to run the server!

      python manage.py runserver
    

  • Open http://localhost:8000/news to view and interact with the website

  • When you're finished press CTRL+C to quit the server

  • Deactivate the virtual environment by either using the command deactivate or terminate your terminal session.

Database Schema

Project Features

• Order stories by date
• Styled "new story" form
• Story images
• Log-in/log-out
• "Account view" page
• "Create Account" page
• View stories by author
• "Log-in" button only visible when no user is logged in/"Log-out" button only visible when a user is logged in
• "Create Story" functionality only available when user is logged in

Additional Features:

• Add categories to the stories and allow the user to search for stories by category.

• Add the ability to update and delete stories (consider permissions - whos hould be allowed to update or and/or delete stories).

• Add the ability to “favourite” stories and see a page with your favourite stories.

• Our form for creating stories requires you to add the publication date, update this to automatically save the publication date as the day the story was first published.

• Gracefully handle the error where someone tries to create a new story when they are not logged in.