Web Drive

A simplified Google Drive clone built on Django and React to help you maintain you personal data cloud

Installation

1. Clone this repository

2. Enter the project folder, set up python3, then run

python -m pip -r requirements.txt

3. Set up postgresql, and create a database under user postgres with the database name webdrive

psql -u postgres
create database webdrive;

If you'd like to use a different user, or a different database name, make sure to make changes in settings.py

4. Run migrations

python manage.py migrate

5. Seed data into db

python manage.py loaddata src/fixtures/seed.json

6. Start the server

python manage.py runserver

7. Open another terminal session into the client folder

cd client

8. If you don't have latest node (14+) then you can change directory to the client/build folder and start a static server from there and try out the application

cd build
npm install -g static-server
static-server -p 3000 . -n index.html

9. Continue the installation and install dependencies in the client folder

npm install

10. Run the web client in your browser using this script

npm run dev

11. Visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser

12. WebDrive comes with a cron script that periodically clears all text files that you have uploaded in the system. To start the task, run

python manage.py runcrons

Usage

List folders

Add file/folder

Search files and folder

Move file and folder

Delete files and folders

Troubleshooting/Contact

You can write to me here on github or on my email at vikramthyagarajan92@gmail.com