Django IG

Photo sharing social media site built with Python/Django. Based on Instagram's design. The server also uses Django Channels to establish a websocket connection to the client for messages and soon, notifications. Channels requires a redis server to be running, more info can be found about Django Channels here

Installation

Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Ensure that Redis is installed and running on port 6379 (default).

Run these two commands in two separate terminals

python3 manage.py runserver --noworker
python3 manage.py runworker