UniLink Project

This is a social media project that is developed using Django Framework as backend. Our main goal of this project was to build a platform to connect with other university students. This has similar funcionalities like other Social Media Platforms like Facebook.

Funcionalities available so far in the site :

• User Signup
• User Login/Logout
• (Django Inbuilt user authentication)
• Password Reset ( Using Twillio as a service )
• News Feed similar to Facebook (not yet user oriented so far)
• Make posts and edit them
• User Authorization features

This is how to get started and customize it.

1. First, clone the repository.

    git clone https://github.com/SasikaA073/Social-blog
   

2. Then run this command to activate a python environment. After that activate the environment.

   In linux,

    virtualenv --python=python3 ~/venv/MyVirtEnv
    source ~/venv/MyVirtEnv/bin/activate
   

   In Windows,

    python -m venv "MyVirtEnv"
    source MyVirtEnv\Scripts\activate
   

   If your Python virtual environment works fine, then in the command line should be something similar to this.

    (MyVirtEnv) C:\Users\Foo
   

3. Now you have to install the required python libraries. Then run this command.

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Now the last part!

    python manage.py runserver