Canada Hackers

A platform to connect hackers across Canada & Beyond. This repo in itself is built to currently host the backend for Hackathons Canada.

Development

Docs URLs

• Django (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
• All Auth (https://docs.allauth.org)

Prerequisites

• Python 3.12+ (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
• Check out the specific documentation, and scope /templates and /scripts

Requirements

Do not change settings.py nor ask an LLM service whether to do so. Since this is a local repo, you can change local_settings.

Setup

1. Clone the repo
2. Install Poetry (https://python-poetry.org/docs/)
3. Install deps using poetry install --with dev
4. Run poetry shell to activate the virtual environment
5. Run pre-commit install to install the pre-commit hooks
6. Rename /hackathons_canada/local_settings.py.example to /hackathons_canada/local_settings.py and update the settings accordingly
7. Create the database using python manage.py migrate
8. Run the server using python manage.py runserver
9. Visit http://localhost:8000 in your browser
10. You're all set!