Coders Headquarters

:wave: Introduction

Coders Headquarters (CodersHQ) is a social platform for developers to grow, network, challenge themselves, and gain points by contributing and helping others in this community. This platform was built by the community and for the community. The essence of CodersHq is to inspire everyone to learn to code, share knowledge and learn together.

Currently the platform is at the alpha stage with a lot of the foundations being set. It is built using django and deployed using docker.

📄 The Docs

Have a look at the docs, we document everything over there. We plan to migrate from the docs to something more established, like readthedocs, once we have enough material to work with.

We also document the tasks in notion and you can have a look at the issues section to find out what we are working on.

⚙️ Quick Setup

Make sure you have Docker version 2+ and then do the following to build the stack and update the databse :

$ docker-compose -f local.yml build
$ docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py makemigrations
$ docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py migrate
$ docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py createsuperuser

Follow the rest of the README for more information and use /admin to edit and create challenges.

🧑‍💻 Getting Up and Running Locally With Docker

The steps below will get you up and running with a local development environment. All of these commands assume you are in the root of your generated project.

Note

If you're new to Docker, please be aware that some resources are cached system-wide and might reappear if you generate a project multiple times with the same name.

Prerequisites

Docker; if you don't have it yet, follow the installation instructions;
Docker Compose; refer to the official documentation for the installation guide.
(Windows) This repository can run on windows and was tested on WSL2. Once you have WSL2, and a linux kernel, installed and running you need to install docker and you should be good to go. (Tested on Docker version 20.10.7, build f0df350 and Windows OS Build: 19042.1052)

🏗️ Build the Stack

This can take a while, especially the first time you run this particular command on your development system::

$ docker-compose -f local.yml build

Generally, if you want to emulate production environment use production.yml instead. And this is true for any other actions you might need to perform: whenever a switch is required, just do it!

Run the Stack

This brings up both Django and PostgreSQL. The first time it is run it might take a while to get started, but subsequent runs will occur quickly.

Open a terminal at the project root and run the following for local development::

$ docker-compose -f local.yml up

You can also set the environment variable COMPOSE_FILE pointing to local.yml like this::

$ export COMPOSE_FILE=local.yml

And then run::

$ docker-compose up

To run in a detached (background) mode, just::

$ docker-compose up -d

Execute Management Commands

As with any shell command that we wish to run in our container, this is done using the docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm command: ::

$ docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py migrate
$ docker-compose -f local.yml run --rm django python manage.py createsuperuser

Here, django is the target service we are executing the commands against.

(Optionally) Designate your Docker Development Server IP

When DEBUG is set to True, the host is validated against ['localhost', '127.0.0.1', '[::1]']. This is adequate when running a virtualenv. For Docker, in the config.settings.local, add your host development server IP to INTERNAL_IPS or ALLOWED_HOSTS if the variable exists.

Basic Commands

Setting Up Your Users

To create a normal user account, just go to Sign Up and fill out the form. Once you submit it, you'll see a "Verify Your E-mail Address" page. Go to your console to see a simulated email verification message. Copy the link into your browser. Now the user's email should be verified and ready to go.
To create an superuser account, use this command:

    $ python manage.py createsuperuser

For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.

Type checks

Running type checks with mypy:

    $ mypy codershq

Test coverage

To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report:

    $ coverage run -m pytest
    $ coverage html
    $ open htmlcov/index.html

Running tests with py.test

    $ pytest

Celery

This app comes with Celery.

To run a celery worker:

    cd codershq
    celery -A config.celery_app worker -l info

Please note: For Celery's import magic to work, it is important where the celery commands are run. If you are in the same folder with manage.py, you should be right.

Email Server

In development, it is often nice to be able to see emails that are being sent from your application. For that reason local SMTP server MailHog with a web interface is available as docker container.

Container mailhog will start automatically when you will run all docker containers. Please check cookiecutter-django Docker documentation for more details how to start all containers.

With MailHog running, to view messages that are sent by your application, open your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:8025