Single-page forum application that aims to be clean and simple.

The frontend is a fast, interactive and simple Single-Page-Application (SPA), written in ES6 Javascript and built with following technologies:

• React v16
• Redux v5
• React Router v4
• Redux Thunk v2
• Redux Persist v5.9
• etc

The backend provides data through its RESTful API (browseable API available), written in Python and built with following technologies:

• Django v2.0
• Djangorestframework v3.7
• etc

List of available API (browseable) at /api
* /user/
* /user/login/
* /user/register/
* /user/logout/
* /user/{username}/
* /user/{username}/edit
* /user/{username}/delete
* /forum/
* /forum/create/
* /forum/{slug}/
* /forum/{slug}/edit/
* /forum/{slug}/delete/
* /thread/
* /thread/create/
* /thread/{id}/
* /thread/{id}/edit/
* /thread/{id}/delete/
* /post/
* /post/create/
* /post/{id}/
* /post/{id}/edit/
* /post/{id}/delete/

Make sure you have following software installed in your system:

• Python 3
• Node.js
• NPM / Yarn
• Git

First, we need to clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/endiliey/rengorum.git

Setup a virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

Create an isolated environments through virtualenv, note that it must be Python 3, because I'm using latest Django version (v2)

cd rengorum/backend
virtualenv venv -p python3

Activate virtualenv

source venv/bin/activate

Install all required dependencies for backend by typing

pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy the .env.example as .env in backend folder

cp .env.example .env

Install all required dependencies for frontend in rengorum/frontend folder by typing

cd ../frontend
npm install

Copy the .env.example as .env in frontend folder

cp .env.example .env

*Note: Exit python virtualenv by

deactivate

Make sure you've activated your virtualenv, activate by

cd backend
source venv/bin/activate

Make sure backend testcases that I've wrote is not failing

python manage.py test

Then run the server, api endpoint should be available on http://localhost:8000/api

python manage.py runserver

Make sure you've installed all the dependencies for frontend before, then

cd frontend
npm start

Frontend should be available on http://localhost:3000/