penn-mobile

This repository is the Django-based successor to labs-api-server, containing API routes to help students manage and keep track of things around campus that matter to them. This repo contains:

• GSR Booking
• Laundry Data
• Dining Data
• Fitness Data
• News and Events
• Posts and Polls
• Notifications

Install

• git clone https://github.com/pennlabs/penn-mobile.git
• cd penn-mobile/backend
• brew install postgres
• pipenv install --dev --python 3.11

Note that the above command will likely throw some ugly errors at you with regards to the psycopg2 packages. If that is the case, just manually install them:

• pipenv install psycopg2
• pipenv install --dev

Final Steps:

• pipenv run python manage.py migrate
• pipenv run python manage.py runserver 8000

Making git blame correct (optional):

• git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs

Setting up precommit (optional):

• pipenv run pre-commit install

Creating Users

To create users, you first have to create a main superuser.

• pipenv run python manage.py createsuperuser and follow the instructions
• Then, you can go to localhost:8000/admin/auth/user/add/ to add more users.

Testing Delayed Notifications

• brew install redis

In separate terminal windows, run the following commands:

• redis-server
• celery -A pennmobile worker -linfo

Exploring the API

• Expore the API via our auto-generated documentation! This is a really good way to click around and discover stuff.