Book Cover Generator app

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A tool to create user-generated book covers and share on social media.

Setting up

Frontend

To compile SASS in an easy way install Gulp + NodeJS.

Run:

npm install

To start Gulp, which monitors and compiles SCSS to CSS run:

gulp

Now all files in _scss are watched and the _scss/main.scss compiles to bcg/static/css/main.css on save.

If you want to compile the JS (all source files are in _js) to the file scripts.min.jsz, then run:

gulp minifyJS

Backend

1. Download and install Python 3.5.2 from python.org
2. Download and install virtualenv to create a virtual environment (docs)
3. Create a virtual environment:

virtualenv -p python3 .venv

4. Activate newly created virtual environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

5. Install Python requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Database

For image upload and handling.

1. Install all dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install Postgres (protip: http://postgresapp.com/)

3. Within psql, run: create database danandphil;

4. Run Django migrations to populate database: python manage.py migrate