Bloglite: Snapshot of the application

Landing page - Login/Register

Homepage/Dashboard

My-profile Page

Searching and engaging with other users

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Run the application

To run the backend:

cd backend
virtualenv bloglite
bloglite/Scripts/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

python app.py

To the run the frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm i bootstrap@5.3.0-alpha3
npm run serve

BACKEND JOBS:

1. Open a WSL prompt/Git Bash on windows
2. Install following command sequence on Ubuntu terminal

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

3. Open three terminals and start a virtual environment such as follows:

cd "/mnt/<followed by the complete path to the backend folder>" // Make sure you're inside the backend dir
virtualenv bloglite
source bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

terminal #1 - Redis server

redis-server

terminal #2 - Celery Worker server

celery -A app.celery worker -l info

terminal #3 - Celery beat server

celery -A app.celery beat --max-interval 2 -l INFO
// --max-interval : maximum interval to check for beat updates

terminal #4 - Mailhog server

• Check your system architecture and download the appropriate version from the Mailhog repo releases
• run the .exe file to start a local mailhog server