Blog Application in Django

This repository contains a blog application built in Django with Docker.

Features Implemented

• A user can create, update, and delete a blog post.
• A user can signup/login.
• Only an author can edit/delete their post(s).
• A user can post comments in each post.
• Create a user profile for the users.
• Supports TeX commands.

Getting started

Docker Installation:

• You can find the instructions here to install Docker.
• Please make sure that Docker is running (in the background) before you use the commands related to Docker.

Steps:

1. Clone/download this repository.
2. Create a virtual environment using the command python3 -m venv .venv; activate the virtual environment using source .venv/bin/activate.
3. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install dependencies.
4. Deactivate the virtual environment using deactivate in the terminal.
5. Configure your environment variables in docker-compose.yml file
6. Run docker-compose up -d --build to install the dependencies in Docker container.
7. Run docker-compose exec web python manage.py rename <currentprojectname> <newprojectname>