Blood Bank

All-in-one portal for Blood Donation 🩸

It helps people in emergency to find donors quicker

Report Bug · Request Feature

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Features

1. Creating Donors

2. Looking for Donors

3. Raising Request Tickets

4. Sorting Request Tickets

5. Notification system for new Requests

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Technologies used

1. Flask

2. React

3. Flutter

4. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

5. Django (added later, has the same functionalities)

This project contains the APIs built for HACKNPITCH, a hackathon conducted by Jadavpur University. We worked on the Blood Bank problem statement.

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UPDATE

The entire code is later on refactored and implemented using Django Rest Framework (DRF). The previous flask code is moved into flask folder.

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Getting Started

Installation (Django)

1. Clone the repository and go to django folder

   https://github.com/debdutgoswami/blood-bank.git
   cd blood-bank/django
   

2. Setup virtual environment and install the dependencies

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Configuration for using Django PointField (from django.contrib.gis.db.models import PointField) in models.py

   sudo apt-get install binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin
   sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-mod-spatialite
   

4. Run migrations

   python manage.py makemigrations core
   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Create a .env file using the sample.env

6. Run the server

   python manage.py runserver
   

Installation (Flask)

1. Clone the repository and go to flask folder

   https://github.com/debdutgoswami/blood-bank.git
   cd blood-bank/flask
   

2. Setup virtual environment and install the dependencies

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Run the server

   python app.py