Django-LMS

This project is a learning management system built using VueJS, Django 4.0 and Docker for the Database

Requirements

• Python3.8
• Node
• Docker

Starting the backend

• Clone this repo
• cd into DJANGO-LMS
• Create & activate a virtual environment, this can be done with either Virtualenv or Pipenv
• run pip install -r requirements.txt to install all necessary modules.
• Make a demo project to get a Secret_Key generated by django
  • open terminal and type django-admin startproject demo
  • Now go to settings.py of the demo project and copy the SECRET_KEY
  • Navigate to the cloned folder and open the setting.py and paste the copied SECRET_KEY.
• run docker-compose up to build and startup the DB (ensure this step completes before moving to the next)
• cd into lms folder and run python manage.py makemigrations, python manage.py migrate and python manage.py createsuperuser to create an admin user.
• Ensures all steps above runs without errors, then python manage.py runserver

Starting Up the Frontend

• cd into front_end folder
• in terminal run npm install
• then npm run serve

Raise an issue for any suggestions or issues encountered.