Build a functional prototype of a platform that gives students an array of digital academic and social tools to stay engaged with their studies, peers and broader university community during pandemic.

https://common-space.azurewebsites.net/
Note: You can create your own account by clicking on register button
OR use default credential as
UserName: simran Password: qwerty

It's a blogging + QnA website for enthusiast people from diverse background built solely by me using a completely different stack.

Built using flask

• FrontEnd: HTML, CSS, Javascripts
• Database: MySQL

• Python 3.9.9

• MySQL 8.0

  • Create database

  CREATE DATABASE common_space;

  • Dump database (Optional step to get dummy data)

    mysql -u<username> -p<password> common_space  < ./dbdump/common_space.sql

Note: find the databases dump file in database folder

1. Clone this repository to your desktop

git clone https://github.com/kathuriasimran/common-space.git

2. Go to the Common_space directory and create a new virtual environment to create isolated Python environment. Note: I highly recommend using Virtualenv.

py -m venv env

3. Activate the virtual environment

env\Scripts\activate

4. Install the application requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Configure the database and app
   for detail explaination go to how it work

6. Run the application and go to localhost:8000 to see the application running:

python run.py

As mention in point five of installation config look as below

config.json

{
    "startup_conf":
                        {
                            "app_name" : "Common Space",
                            "host":"0.0.0.0",
                            "port":8000,
                            "debug":true,
                            "use_reloader":true,
                            "secret_key":"S3$&F@$%DSRER"

                        },

    "database_conf":   
                        {
                            "type":"mysql",  # This can be mysql / azure_sql 
                            "url":"localhost",
                            "port":3306,
                            "database_name":"common_space",
                            "username":"root",
                            "password":"simran"

                        }
}

Created by Simran Kathuria