BLOGLY 🎀 📜

A small Django-powered app to make a blog. 🎀 📜

ABOUT 📚

Since I wanted to show off my Django skills and it toook me ages to come up with an idea, I thought it'd be a good idea to make a small app that shows how to build a blog using Django and SQLite. Enjoy. ❤️

USAGE

Requirements

make sure you have the following tools installed and available from the command line:

• Python
• Git

Steps

To run this app on your own machine, execute these steps:

• 1.) Get the source code:

git clone https://github.com/angeldollface/blogly

• 2.) Install virtualenv:

python3 -m pip install virtualenv

• 3.) Change directory into Blogly's root:

cd blogly

• 4.) Create a new virtual environment here:

python3 -m venv .

• 5.) Activate the virtual environment (The command below is for *nix systems. Do the equivalent for this on Windows.):

source bin/activate

• 6.) Install the project's dependencies:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

• 7.) Setup the database migrations:

python manage.py migrate

• 8.) Setup the database migrations for the posts app:

python manage.py makemigrations posts

• 9.) Re-apply the new migrations:

python manage.py migrate

• 10.) Setup a superuser account:

python manage.py createsuperuser

• 11.) Run the local development server:

python manage.py runserver

• 11.) Visit the address on which the local server is running and add /admin to the end of that URL.

• 12.) Login.

• 13.) Click the + next to the Posts text.

• 14.) Write a blog post.

• 15.) Logout.

• 16.) Go back to the root address.

• 17.) Behold your post!

CHANGELOG ✒️

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Upload to GitHub.

NOTE 📜

• Blogly 🎀 📜 by Alexander Abraham 🖤 a.k.a. "Angel Dollface" 🎎 🎀
• Licensed under the MIT license.