Django Dating App

A dating app for those that live in the anime world.

Deployed App:

• https://ani-mate-django.herokuapp.com/

Table of contents

• General info
• Technologies
• Setup
• Features
• Idea & Wireframe
• To Do
• Sources

General info

This project was created by Kimberley Salter and Antony Long.

Technologies

Project is created with:

• React
• Python
• Django
• Restframework
• Balsamiq (for wireframing)
• Webpack
• Babel
• SASS
• JWT
• Bootstrap (for styling)
• Material UI Search Bar

Setup

To run this project, clone it and install it using yarn.

$ git clone https://github.com/antonylong/django-dating-app.git
$ cd django-dating-app
$ cd dating-backend
$ pip install
$ python -m pip install django-cors-headers
$ python manage.py runserver
$ cd ..
$ cd client
$ yarn
$ yarn start

Features

• Filtering
• Searching
• Chat
• Swipe left/right
• Favourite

Idea & Wireframe

• talk about our initial idea
• discussed the idea of a dating app
• created a wireframe with potential colour schemes and app name

To Do

• build the backend
• build the frontend
• add extra features

Problems

• Antony had an issue with JWT, which took a long time. Was having an error "JWT: 'module' object has no attribute 'encode'". This took quite a while to resolve. Required for virtual environments on local machine to be deleted and reinstall the project.

Sources

This was inspired by our love of anime.