A book sharing web app written in Python / Django. This Project we made in 2020 for Our National Level Hackathon called Student Start-up and Innovation Policy(SSIP). BookSwap is a book-sharing application written in Python using the Django Framework. Before deploying, you need to install the prerequisites.
1. Python (version 2.7 or higher)
2. Git
3. Django (version 1.7 or higher)
4. Pip, the Python Package Manager
5. SQLite 3 (using apt-get)
This is to inform you that to run this project you need to create "Virtual Environment". Virtual Environment provides an isolation environment for python files.
The following steps will guide you to create Virtutal Environment and this code should be executed in cmd and directory will be the folder in which you stored this project.
For instance, my directory is E:\FPD
Note: You Must have Installed Python and Django In Your Device
Step 1- creating virtutal environment as myvenv:- E:\BookSwap>python -m venv myvenv
Step 2- activating virtual environment:- E:\BookSwap>myvenv\Scripts\activate
Step 3- installing requirement files to run this project:- (myvenv) E:\BookSwap>pip install -r requirements.txt
Step 4- project on server:- (myvenv) E:\BookSwap>python manage.py runserver
The above mentioned requirements.txt file is already provided with project.
After following the above given steps, you are good to go and can run this astonishing project.