Compete IT is a project aimed to help students to find the most relevant competitions in IT and teammates for a team contests!
This repo contains only API of the project
Technologies: Django, Django REST Framework, Django Channels
Databases: PostgreSQL(Production), SQLite(Development), Redis
Deployment: Heroku, Cloudinary

• Python installed version 3.8.5
• virtualenv installed globally via pip

1. Clone git repo using command git clone https://github.com/Rotarasov/Compete-IT.git
2. Go to folder cd compete_it and create virtual environment virtaulenv venv
3. Install requirements from txt file pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Add database url and variable for local development to .env file echo -e "DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///db.sqlite3\nLOCAL=1" > .env
5. Create database touch db.sqlite
6. Create folders for media mkdir -p media/{user_pics,event_pics} and upload to media/user_pics picture for default user image and the name should be default.png
7. Run python manage.py migrate in the command line to set up database
8. Run python manage.py runserver to run server