What is PSP

It's a short for People shaping people. It's simply a platform where people can share stories of how friends or loved ones have shaped their lives. Read more here

Live

https://www.peopleshapingpeople.com

Development

Built with Django stack.

Features

- Asyncronous chat system using sockets
- Custom CMS (In retrospect, this might be an overkill, headless CMS would have been great)
- Frontend using jinja

Running App locally

Steps

• Create a virtual environment (Recommended, not required). See how.
• Install dependencies - pip install -r requirements.txt
• Make database migration - python manage.py makemigrations
• Migrate database - python manage.py migrate
• Run App - python manage.py runserver

Possible Errors During setup

Unable to install Twisted: Ref here

• apt install python3-dev To enabe compilation of package.
• I did include the package on root directory, to allow me run app on heroku, you can also remove Twisted from requirements.txt file and install other packages. That works too.

Env variables you need

Email SMTP server (you could simply use django's console EmailBackend for local test puposes)

• EMAIL_BACKEND
• EMAIL_HOST
• EMAIL_HOST_USER
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
• EMAIL_PORT
• EMAIL_USE_TLS
• EMAIL_USE_SSL
• DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL

Django app variables

• SECRET_KEY
• DEBUG
• ALLOWED_HOSTS

Cloudinary credentials, used for accessing data storage

• cloud_name
• api_key
• api_secret

Database credentials (you could simply use the sqlite dev db)

• DB_ENGINE
• DB_NAME
• DB_USER
• DB_PASSWORD
• DB_HOST
• DB_PORT