ASK MATE

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
   • Main Features
   • Built With
   • Visuals
2. Usage
3. Development Team
4. Acknowledgments

About The Project

Ask mate is a forum where visitors can register and login, start new discussions on different topics, respond to other topics, comment on questions and answers, and vote for answers as preffered. It's simmilar to let's say...Stack Overflow, but it's low specs version.

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Main Features

• Register
• Login
• Sort questions
• Search key terms/phrases
• Create new question
• Answer questions
• Vote and comment on questions and answers
• Mark questions as accepted
• Delete questions, answers and comments
• Access user dashboard
• Users statistics

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Built With

Back End:

• Python
• Flask

Front End:

• HTML
• CSS

Database Management:

• PostgreSQL

IDE:

• Visual Studio Code

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Visuals

Home page:

Home Page - Logged in:

Register Form:

Password validation on client side:

Login Form:

New question from:

New Answer form:

Question Details:

Answers:

User Dashboard:

Users Statistics:

Tags Page:

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Usage

If you'd like to have a look at the application, please, follow these steps:

• Go to the web app on Heroku
• Credentials for user login

   user_name: nick_the_brick@yolo.com
   pass: L1nk1np@rk
  

• Enjoy!

If you'd like to edit and test the source code on Windows OS, please, follow these steps

• Install Python 3.8 or higher

• Install PostgreSQL 14 or higher

• In order to acccess the PSQL command line, set up the environment variables with the path of the bin and lib folders of PostgreSQL directory. Maybe this video can give you a hand with this

• Run psql -U postgres in the command line and add the password you choose when installed PostgreSQL to login

• Create a database psql CREATE DATABASE <DB_NAME>

• Connect to the database you've just created psql \c <DB_NAME>

• Seed the database with the data from \sample_data\askmatepart2-sample-data.sql by using psql \i <Copy realtive path of the askmatepart2-sample-data.sql> change the \ path separator with /

• Duplicate the .env.template and rename it to .env

• In the .env file fill these fields

   PSQL_PASSWORD=postgres account password
   PSQL_HOST=localhost
   PSQL_DB_NAME=db_name_you_created 
   COOKIE_SECRET_KEY=something_random ex: gordgandoibv551150``` 
  

• Go to your Python folder and add both the folder and the subfolder Scripts paths to the environment variables

• Install virtualenv with pip install virtualenv from the command prompt

• Open the root directory and create a virtual environment virtual venv venv

• Activate the virtual environment venv\Scripts\activate

• Install requirements from the requirements.txt pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run server.py

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Development Team

• Mihai Buga's GitHub
• Nicolae Peptea's GitHub

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Acknowledgments

Thanks for all the support to the Codecool mentors that have guided us!