slugline-api

The backend portion of slugline, mathNEWS's best and only Django/React based publishing website.

Running

• Create a virtualenv by running virtualenv <environment location>. Python 3.7+ is recommended. Depending on your OS run the following to activate the virtualenv:
  • Windows: <environment location>/scripts/activate
  • Linux: source <environment location>/bin/activate
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to download dependencies.
• Create the database with ./manage.py migrate.
• Create a superuser with ./manage.py createsuperuser. Then run ./manage.py runserver to start the backend. If you want to fiddle with the data, go to localhost:8000/admin and login with your superuser credentials.
• By default, this runs on port 8000. If you change this, be sure to go over to the front-end and change the port setting there.

Loading data

If you have a XML dump from the mathNEWS WordPress handy, you can preload the database with it. Just run ./manage.py wordpress <xml_file> and it'll load in the articles in the dump. However, the articles are not perfect, and should be cleaned up before being made visible to the public.

Contributing

Submit a pull request or something.