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This is the source code of the entire website/web app along with Sendgrid E-mail and Cloudinary CDN configurations.

This is required to setup the dependencies for the app to start.
Inside the project directory -

• virtualenv env
  • .\env\Scripts\activate - For Windows users
  • source env/bin/activate - For Linux/MacOS users
• pip install -r requirements.txt

The settings defined in the vellxr/settings.py is configured for production only environments. To use locally -

• Create a file named local_settings.py inside the vellxr/ directory.
• put the following contents in it -

  • DEBUG = True
    SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT = False
    SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = None

Inside the same directory -

• python manage.py makemigrations
• python manage.py migrate
• python manage.py collectstatic
• python manage.py runserver 80

This will start the server locally. Visit http://localhost:80 or http://127.0.0.1:80 to explore the app.

This feature will help in error reporting while the app is in production.
This is not necessary for the app to run properly. If you don't want to use this feature, simply comment out the code lines 42 to 53 in settings.py.

• ADMIN_FULL_NAME - full name on Sendgrid console
• ADMIN_EMAIL_ID - E-mail ID used to signup on Sendgrid
• SENDGRID_API_KEY - Sendgrid API key
• MAILER_LIST - list of users to send e-mail
• DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL - E-mail ID used to signup on Sendgrid
• EMAIL_HOST_USER - Username on Sendgrid console
• EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD - Password of Sendgrid account

This is a necessary configuration as media files are no longer handled by Django. But still, if you want to continue with Django, Comment the lines 15 to 20 in models.py and follow this.

• CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME - Cloud name in Cloudinary console
• CLOUDINARY_API_KEY - Cloudinary API key
• CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET - Cloudinary API secret

• Feel freely to open issues 😄.
• The configuration for Heroku is still left to be added in the documentation. Contributing to this will be helpful.