DocCom

A forum application built for Doctors to come up and discuss issues related to Covid-19 happening in India, users can sign up and post questions and can answers to questions as well. In this critical situation of Covid-19 in India, having a community especially for Doctors helps for patience. Hope this helps Doctors during Covid-19 in India.

Frontend

The frontend is a fast, interactive and simple Single-Page-Application (SPA), written in ES6 Javascript and built with following technologies:

• React
• Redux
• React Router
• Redux Thunk
• Redux Persist

Demo Screenshots:

Backend

The backend is a scalable system that provides data through its RESTful API (browseable API available), written in Python and built with following technologies:

• Django
• Djangorestframework

API endpoint

List of available API (browseable) at /api
* /user/
* /user/login/
* /user/register/
* /user/logout/
* /user/{username}/
* /user/{username}/edit
* /user/{username}/delete
* /forum/
* /forum/create/
* /forum/{slug}/
* /forum/{slug}/edit/
* /forum/{slug}/delete/
* /thread/
* /thread/create/
* /thread/{id}/
* /thread/{id}/edit/
* /thread/{id}/delete/
* /post/
* /post/create/
* /post/{id}/
* /post/{id}/edit/
* /post/{id}/delete/

Installation

Make sure you have following software installed in your system:

• Python 3
• Node.js
• NPM / Yarn
• Git

First, we need to clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/may55/DocCom.git

Install all required dependencies in an isolated environment

cd DocCom/backend
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy the .env.example as .env in backend folder

cp .env.example .env

Install all required dependencies for frontend in DocCom/frontend folder by typing

cd ../frontend
yarn

Copy the .env.example as .env in frontend folder

cp .env.example .env

Running Backend on Local Server

Activate virtual environment

cd backend
source venv/bin/activate

(Optional) Run test

python manage.py test

Then run the server, api endpoint should be available on http://localhost:8000/api

python manage.py runserver

Running Frontend on Local Server

Start development server

cd frontend
yarn start

Frontend should be available on http://localhost:3000/

Test User

By default, the database for development server in backend/db.sqlite3 is already filled with some data for ease of development. The superuser id is irene and password is irene as well.

If you want to start clean. Delete db.sqlite3 and follow this step in backend folder

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser