Crypto Currency News Site

Home Page

URL

https://www.hassani-cryptonews.com

Setting up Development Environment

Creating Virtual Environment

mkdir -p prj && cd prg
git clone https://github.com/HKSenior/crypto-news.git
virtualenv ./venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

To exit the Virtual Environment

deactivate

Starting Workers and the Beat (Celery)

celery -A {your project} worker -l info -B

This method of starting the workers and beat is solely for development purposes. In production, daemonization is the prefered solution.

Collecting static files

python manage.py collectstatic

Starting the server

python manage.py runserver

Setting up .env config file

Django Configuration

• SECRET_KEY
• ALLOWED_HOSTS
• DEBUG

Database Configuration (PostgreSQL)

• DB_ENGINE
• DB_USER
• DB_HOST
• DB_PASSWORD
• DB_ENGINE

Celery Configuration

• CELERY_ENABLE_UTC
• CELERY_BROKER_URL
• CELERY_TIMEZONE
• CELERY_TASK_SERIALIZER
• CELERY_RESULT_SERIALIZER

Future Upgrades

• Use Celery to auto update database with new articles
• Add pagination to the home page news cards
• Allow users to sort news cards by date on news page
• Allow users to filter news cards by category
• Style news cards
• Add charts to price page