Backend For Shopping Manager

Built on Django and Django REST Framework

To setup the local backend follow the below steps:

1. Make sure you have mysql setup on your system -For Ubuntu, Linux Deb distributions: Run sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql client After successfull installation, Run sudo mysql Create a new database and a user and assign requisite permissions as given here.

2. After above steps, populate the config.py file accordingly.

3. On Ubuntu and Linux systems, sudo service mysql start to start mysql server at the default port 3306

4. Create a virtual environment, python3 -m venv <env_name>

5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the requisite tools.

6. Run python3 manage.py makemigrations; python3 manage.py makemigrations shopBackend; python3 manage.py migrate

   • Note use python in place of python3 for windows.

7. All set!

You can start the development server as: python3 manage.py runserver

Clone the frontend repo from here. Follow steps mentioned in it's README.md to setup frontend in your system.

-Note: npm start should start the devleopment server mentioned at any of the hosts in the CORS_WHITELIST settings.py