Django Blog Demo

About

This is a demo project for practicing Django. The idea was to build some basic blogging platform.

It was made using Python 3.11 + Django and database is SQLite. Bootstrap was used for styling. Testing is done using untitest module.

There is a login and registration functionality included.

User has his own blog page, where he can add new blog posts. Every authenticated user can comment on posts made by other users. Home page is paginated list of all posts. Non-authenticated users can see all blog posts, but cannot add new posts or comment.

App is covered with tests.

Prerequisites

[Optional] Install virtual environment:

$ python -m virtualenv env

[Optional] Activate virtual environment:

On macOS and Linux:

$ source env/bin/activate

On Windows:

$ .\env\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run

Default

You can run the application from the command line with manage.py. Go to the root folder of the application.

Run migrations:

$ python manage.py migrate

Initialize data:

$ python manage.py loaddata users posts comments

Run server on port 8000:

$ python manage.py runserver 8000

Helper script

It is possible to run all of the above with helper script:

$ chmod +x scripts/run.sh
$ scripts/run.sh

Docker

It is also possible to run the blog app using docker:

Build the Docker image:

$ docker build -t reljicd/django-blog -f docker/Dockerfile .

Run the Docker container:

$ docker run --rm -i -p 8000:8000 reljicd/django-blog

Helper script

It is possible to run all of the above with helper script:

$ chmod +x scripts/run_docker.sh
$ scripts/run_docker.sh

Post Installation

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8000/blog

Admin username: admin

Admin password: adminpassword

User username: dusan

User password: dusanpassword

Helper Tools

Django Admin

It is possible to add additional admin user who can login to the admin site. Run the following command:

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

Enter your desired username and press enter.

Username: admin_username

You will then be prompted for your desired email address:

Email address: admin@example.com

The final step is to enter your password. You will be asked to enter your password twice, the second time as a confirmation of the first.

Password: **********
Password (again): *********
Superuser created successfully.

Go to the web browser and visit http://localhost:8000/admin

Tests

Default

Activate virtual environment:

On macOS and Linux:

$ source env/bin/activate

On Windows:

$ .\env\Scripts\activate

Running tests:

$ python manage.py test blog

Docker

It is also possible to run tests using Docker:

Build the Docker image:

$ docker build -t reljicd/django-blog -f docker/Dockerfile .

Run the Docker container:

$ docker run --rm reljicd/django-blog test blog