This my personal blog I am developing while exploring Python and Django more. The online version is available at https://www.makarudze.com.

This blog requires the following:

• Django 4.0+
• MySQL
• Python 3.9+

1. Clone this repo.
2. Create a virtual environment.
3. Run pip install pip-tools to install pip-tools which is used to manage the requirements for this project.
4. Install required packages by running pip install -r requirements.txt.
5. Create a MySQL database.
6. Edit the .env-example with your environment variables, including database name and run migrations.
7. To make changes to the requirements.txt, edit requirements.in then run pip-compile to generate an updated requirements.txt.

• Run coverage run -m pytest to run tests.

1. Create a superuser.
2. Login through Django admin and add posts and all other content.