Bunk Mate - (Backend)

This repository contains the source code and documentation for the attendence tracker backend

Tech Stack

Django Rest Framework: For the building the main API.
Celery: Celery is used for distributed task processing, here it is used for the resource intensive process of creating hundreds of sessions for a certain timetable.
Redis: For message brokering between djano and celery.
PostgreSQL: Database to store user data.

Getting Started

To get started with the Bunk Mate backend, follow these steps:

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Bunk-Mate/backend

Install dependencies:
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Create a .creds file following this template:
```
DBNAME=
DBHOST=
DBUSER=
DBPASS=
CACHELOCATION=
BROKERLOCATION=
SECRET_KEY=
```
- CACHELOCATION and BROKERLOCATION correspond to the urls of the redis databases.
- This env file is used for a local development environment, for production -
  - Set the environment variable WEBSITE_HOSTNAME to the domain of the website.
  - Load the above listed variables into the environment using platform specific methods.
Set up the database:
```
python manage.py migrate
```
Run the development server:
```
python manage.py runserver
```

The backend server will be up and running at http://localhost:8000/.

Roadmap

Implement better authentication
Set up sentry
Refactor codebase
Set up logging and remove print statements
Implement ranked bunking
Test out timetable autodetection from images

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.