A clone of the website for the popular photo app Instagram

To get a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes,

1. clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/KarenNgala/photoApp
   

2. Create a virtual environment

   python3.6 -m venv virtual
   
   source virtual/bin/activate
   

3. Install project dependencies

    (virtual) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

• See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

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1. To get a development env running, use the .env.example file to create your own .env file.
2. Create a postgres db and add the credentials to .env file
3. Apply all migrations

(virtual) $ python manage.py migrate 

4. Create admin account

(virtual) $ python manage.py createsuperuser

5. Make migrations to your database

(virtual) $ python manage.py makemigrations app_insta
(virtual) $ python manage.py migrate

6. Start development server

 (virtual) $ python3 manage.py runserver

Run automated tests for this system

(virtual) $ python3 manage.py test app_insta

With all environment variables changed to suit your local copy of this repository, deploy the application to Heroku to see it live

• Django 3.1 - The web framework used
• Heroku - Deployment platform
• Python3.6 - Backend logic
• Postresql - Database system

• Karen Ngala

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