Meat Up

Meat up is an online application to host events over lunch. This allows one to make precious use of their lunch time with a nice company to talk to.

Technologies Used

• Python 3.7
• Django framework 2.0
• PostgreSQL
• Bootstrap 4.1.3 CSS framework
• jQuery 3.3.1 JS framework

Features in the application

• Has authentication based on username address
• Username address client side validation using HTML5
• Authentication validation on server side with graceful error on client
• We use Django template to create the base layout of the app
• About page with team member details
• Responsive app design using Bootstrap CSS
• Integrated with Zomato API Widget to display nearby restaurants

Hacking

To start hacking on this project, you will need to install the following dependencies once:

$ pip3 install Pillow
$ pip install django-extensions

To build and run the development server:

$ python3 manage.py runserver

Updating Database Model

Whenever we change a database model class under models.py we need to run the following commands:

// to generate the DDL commands from python source code
$ python3 manage.py makemigrations

// to update the database tables under DB
$ python3 manage.py migrate