Emergency Support Django Back-End

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[See the project live][https://sprijindeurgenta.ro]

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Contributing

This project is built by amazing volunteers, and you can be one of them! Here's a list of ways in which you can contribute to this project. If you want to make any change to this repository, please make a fork first.

Help us out by testing this project in the staging environment. If you see something that doesn't quite work the way you expect it to, open an Issue. Make sure to describe what you expect to happen and what is actually happening in detail.

If you would like to suggest new functionality, open an Issue and mark it as a [Feature request]. Please be specific about why you think this functionality will be of use. If you can, please include some visual description of what you would like the UI to look like if you’re suggesting new UI elements.

Built With

Programming languages

Python 3.13

Backend framework

Django 4.2

Package managers

pip through pip-tools

Database technology & provider

PostgreSQL

Related repositories

• the client side of the app: https://github.com/code4romania/war-support-sprijin-de-urgenta-client
• the map of the resource collection centers: https://github.com/code4romania/war-harta-sprijin-de-urgenta

Deployment

Guide users through getting your code up and running on their own system. In this section you can talk about:

1. Make a copy of the .env file, change the variables and run the build command

   cp .env.example .env
   # modify the variables in the .env and then build the development container
   docker compose up -d --build

2. Software dependencies

   You can run the app through docker if it is installed on your machine. If you wish to run it manually, you will need to have gettext installed.

Environment variables

The .env files contain variables required to start the services and initialize them.

• ENVIRONMENT - [test|development|staging|production] sets the type of deployment (default production)
• RUN_MIGRATION - [True|False] run django migrations when you start the app (default True)
• RUN_COMPILEMESSAGES - [True|False] compile i18n messages when you first start the app (default True)
• RUN_SEED_DATA - [True|False] load the data from the fixtures/ folders (default False)
• RUN_COLLECT_STATIC - [True|False] collects static data like images/fonts (default True - has no effect if ENVIRONMENT != production)
• RUN_DEV_SERVER - [True|False] starts the app in development mode with a more comprehensive debugging toolbox (default False)
• SECRET_KEY - the secret key Django will use to encrypt data (should be changed if you're not running through Docker)

Feedback

• Request a new feature on GitHub.
• Vote for popular feature requests.
• File a bug in GitHub Issues.
• Email us with other feedback [email protected]

License

This project is licensed under the MPL 2.0 License — see the LICENSE file for details

About Code for Romania

Started in 2016, Code for Romania is a civic tech NGO, official member of the Code for All network. We have a community of around 2.000 volunteers (developers, ux/ui, communications, data scientists, graphic designers, devops, it security and more) who work pro bono for developing digital solutions to solve social problems. #techforsocialgood. If you want to learn more details about our projects visit our site or if you want to talk to one of our staff members, please e-mail us at [email protected].

Last, but not least, we rely on donations to ensure the infrastructure, logistics and management of our community that is widely spread across 11 timezones, coding for social change to make Romania and the world a better place. If you want to support us, you can do it here.