Making with Code

Act III: Developing the App #

You finally get your hands on some code! During Act III you and your partner will delve into the code and see your app start to come to life.

[0] Starter Code #

In this lab, you will be working in groups, storing your shared code in your group’s repository.

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cd ~/desktop/making_with_code/unit05_webapps/
git clone https://github.com/the-isf-academy/project_web_apps_group#.git
cd project_web_apps_group#

replace # with your group number

💻 Enter the poetry shell.
poetry shell
💻 Install requirements
poetry install

[1] Assessment #

✅ This project will be assessed based on your ability to achieve your success claims :

  • Achivement of MVP Success Claims [3]
    • We are able to develop our web application to achieve our success claims
    • We can provide appropriate examples to demonstrate success
  • Iterative Development [3]
    • I can consistently push my work to Github with descriptive commit messages
    • I can work on my MVP in small chunks
    • I can consistently update my README.md file with works cited

Your group will be awarded a score from 0-3. There are 6 working day.

  • 0 - no evidence of the success claims
  • 1 - limited evidence of the success claims
  • 2 - adequate evidence of the success claims
  • 3 - substantial evidence of the success claims

[2] Deliverables #

⚡✨ At the end of each day, all of the following should be up to date.

  • Your Github repository with the most recent app code
  • Your README.md with your works cited

💻 Push your work to Github:

  • git status
  • git add index.html
    • you can add all of the changed files with: git add -A
  • git status
  • git commit -m "your message goes here"
    • be sure to customize this message, do not copy and paste this line
  • git push

[3] Django Reminders #

💻 To run a local server
python manage.py runserver
💻 To prepare changes the Model fields in the database
python manage.py makemigrations
💻 To apply changes the database
python manage.py migrate
💻 To create a superuser.
python manage.py createsuperuser

[To add images from a file] #

💻 Add the image to the myapp/static folder.

💻 In the HTML template, load the static folder
{% load static %}
💻 In the HTML template, reference the static folder in the image tag
<img src="{% static 'filename.png' %}">

[3] Backing up your database #

In order to back up your database and push it to github, follow these steps:

💻 Back up your app's database.
python manage.py dumpdata > backup.json
💻 Push it to Github
git add backup.json
git status
git commit -m "backing up database"
git push
💻 If you ever want to restore your data from a backup, you can run the following command:
python3 manage.py loaddata backup.json