django-weather

A quick webapp to practice working with Django.

The end goal of this project is a web application that allows users to find out the current weather conditions anywhere in the U.S. searching by zipcode or city and state.

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Objectives

• setup local dev workspace

  `pyenv`, `venv`, `pip install django`
  

• initialize git repo

• commit empty django project

• create a weather app in the project

• create a /search/zip/ route to allow users to get weather by zip

• create a /search/city/state/ route to allow users to get weather by city, state

• build a basic frontend for users to search from

• build a basic frontend to display the results

• create a /report-weather/ route to allow users to enter the weather at a location

• create a /browse-reports/ route to allow users to enter the weather at a location

• set up a data model to hold user submitted weather data

• build a basic frontend for user input

• add ability to browse submitted reports (either searches or filters)

• add basic signin functionality so only authenticated users can submit reports

• add additional report filtering

• add user attribute to data submissions

• migrate to GCP hosting?

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Installation

1. Download or clone the repo

2. Setup a Python (virtual) environment using any version of Python >= 3.7.4

   • note, I've only tested this with 3.7.X, 3.8.X, 3.9.X

3. Update and install all dependencies with

    pip install --U pip && pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Set up your databases and make all migrations using

    python manage.py makemigrations weather
   

   python manage.py migrate

   • Optional: create an admin user for yourself using

     python manage.py createsuperuser
     

5. Run the devserver and explore the app using

    python manage.py runserver