README.md

Wallie-Api

The API portion of the https://github.com/andela-cdike/wallie app.

This repo hosts the python and Django backend of the wallie application. It provides an [https://wallie-api.herokuapp.com/admin](admin interface) and a [https://wallie-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/core/posts/](browsable API) interface for seeing the payload returned by the different endpoints.

This app also features web sockets so users receive real time updates as messages are posted on the board.

Technologies

• python 2.7
• Django 1.11
• Channels for websockets
• Postgres
• Redis

Pre-requisites

• Python

Installation

1. Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/andela-cdike/wall-app-api

2. Navigate to root folder

$ cd wall-app-api

3. Install dependencies

$ pip install -r requirements

3. Run the server

$ cd wall_app
$ python manage.py runserver

Tests

Run tests with

$ cd wall_app
$ python manage.py test

Meta

Erika Dike – @rikkydyke – chukwuerikadike@gmail.com

License

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.