A django-based e-commerce website designed for selling electronics.
Development Environment
To get this project up and running you should start by having Python installed on your computer. It's advised you create a virtual environment to store your projects dependencies separately. You can install virtualenv with
pip install virtualenv
Clone or download this repository and open it in your editor of choice. In a terminal (mac/linux) or windows terminal, run the following command in the base directory of this project
virtualenv env
That will create a new folder env in your project directory. Next activate it with this command on mac/linux:
source env/bin/active
Then install the project dependencies with
pip install -r requirements.txt
Now you can run the project with this command
python manage.py runserver
Environment Variables
Rename/Copy env.example as .env, and set up the environment variables in .env file.
cp .env.example .env
Note: The website uses SMTP to send emails to the customers and therefore requires an email account for the functionality to work. Also requires a PayPal account for the payment functionality.