MULTI USER ROLE AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM

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This is a fullstack reusable capstone project that handles multi user roles authentication system built with Django, React and Redux.

Overview

I've always been fascinated by how applications with multiple user roles and permissions are run, developed, and configured. As a learning challenge, I decided to uncover and dig beneath the hood.

Setup and dependacies

General

• IDE of your choice

Backend

• Python 3.6 +
• Django 4.0.1 +
• Django Rest Framework
• More depedancies listed in backend/requirements.txt

Frontend

• Javascript
• Node
• Express
• Redux

How to install this project

1. Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/John-Kimani/MULTI_USER_ROLE_AUTHENTICATION.git

2. Navigate into project base folder

    cd MULTI_USER_ROLE_AUTHENTICATION

3. Open project in your IDE. i.e VsCode users

    code .

Available scripts

Backend

Move into the backend folder to configure the backend server.

Create virtual envirionment.

    virtualvenv venv

Activate the virtual environment

    pipenv shell

Install all the required dependacies.

    pip install requirements.txt

Create a .env file to hold your hidden project environment variables.

Create a postrgress database for my production and development configuration alrather set mode to lite to user the preinstalled SQLite3 database

Environment Variables

- SECRET_KEY='django-secret-key' or 'you-will-never-guess'
- MODE='dev' // development
- DEBUG=True
- DEV_DB_NAME='blackpanther22'
- DEV_DB_USER='postgres user' or 'allowed psql user'
- DEV_DB_PASSWORD='you-will-never-guess' or Null
- DEV_DB_HOST=provide default
- ALLOWED_HOSTS=provide for localhost
- CLOUDINARY_CLOUD_NAME=your cloudinary username
- CLOUDINARY_API_KEY=your cloudinary api
- CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=your cloudinary secret key
- CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS =[ALLOWED_HOSTS]
- DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=0

Continue with setup

Make migrations to the new database.

    python manage.py makemigrations

Migrate new configurations to database.

    python manage.py migrate

If successfull you can now configure the frontend application. Move back to projects root folder MULTI_USER_ROLE_AUTHENTICATION

    cd ..

Frontend

An expressJs server engine is used to handle and fix CORS related issues during development by technically having the client app rendered and sending requests from a proxy host.

From base folder navigate into frontend folder.

    cd frontend

To install required package dependancies run;

    npm install

Navigate into the frontend folder to set up the client-side server.

frontend/client

    cd client

Install required package for the SPA application dependancies run;

    npm install

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

Learn More

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.

AUTHOR

This project was designed and developed by : Kimani John