Platform-Based Programming (CSGE602022) - Organized by the Faculty of Computer Science Universitas Indonesia, Odd Semester 2022/2023

This repository is a template that is designed to help students who take the Platform-Based Development/Programming Course (CSGE602022) to know the structure of a Django Web application project, including the files and configurations that are important in running the application. You can freely copy the contents of this repository or utilise this repository as a learning material and also as a starting code to build a Django Web application project.

If you want to use the code template in this repository as a starter code for developing a Django Web application:

1. Open the GitHub page of the code template repository and click "Use this template" button to make a copy of the repository into your own GitHub account.

2. Clone the new Django template repository from your GitHub account to a location in the filesystem of your local development environment by using Git:

   git clone <URL to your repository on GitHub> <path in local development environment>

3. Go to the location where the cloned repository is located in the local development environment:

   cd <path to the cloned repository>

4. Create a Python virtual environment named env inside the cloned repository by using Python's venv module:

   python -m venv env

5. Activate the virtual environment:

   # Windows
   .\env\Scripts\activate
   # Linux/Unix, e.g. Ubuntu, MacOS
   source env/bin/activate

6. Verify the virtual environment has been activated by looking at the prompt of your shell. Make sure there is a env prefix in your shell. For example:

   # Windows using `pwsh` shell
   (env) PS C:\Users\RickeyAstley\my-django-app
   # Linux/Unix, e.g. Ubuntu using `bash` shell
   (env) rickeyastley@ubuntu:~/my-django-app

   Note: You can use Visual Studio Code (with Python extension) or PyCharm to open the source code directory that has a virtual environment directory. Both will detect the virtual environment and use the correct Python virtual environment. Furthermore, you can also run your shell directly in both text editor/IDE.

7. Install the dependencies needed to build, test, and run the application:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

8. Run the Django Web application using local development server:

   python manage.py runserver

9. Open http://localhost:8000 in your favourite Web browser to see if the Web application is running.

The code template provided a GitHub workflow to deploy the sample Django Web application to Heroku, which is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider that lets you to build and run a Web application on their infrastructure. You can read the instructions at Tutorial 0 to figure out how to configure the GitHub Actions to run the provided workflow in your repository.

For reference, the deployed Django Web application example from the original code template repository can be found at: https://django-pbp-template.herokuapp.com.

If you have successfully created your own repository and set up the Django Web application project, you can start working on the weekly tutorials and assignments related to Django Web application development.

If you found any issues or have ideas to improve the code template, feel free to discuss your proposal via the issue tracker and create a Pull Request (PR) containing your changes to the code template.

This template was based on PBP Odd Term 2021/2022 written by 2021 Platform Based Programming Teaching Team (@prakashdivyy) and django-template-heroku written by @laymonage, et al.. This template is designed in such a way so that students can use this template as a starter and reference in doing assignments and their work.