Django Comments App

This is a simple single-page web application built with Django that allows users to manage comments. The application supports the following features:

• Display a list of comments, paginated to show 10 comments per page.
• Add new comments.
• Edit existing comments.
• Delete comments.

Project Structure

The project is organized as follows:

django-comments-app
├── comments                # Application for managing comments
│   ├── migrations          # Database migrations
│   ├── static              # Static files (CSS, JS)
│   ├── templates           # HTML templates
│   ├── __init__.py        # Marks the directory as a Python package
│   ├── admin.py           # Admin site configuration
│   ├── apps.py            # Application configuration
│   ├── models.py          # Database models
│   ├── tests.py           # Unit tests
│   ├── urls.py            # URL routing for comments
│   └── views.py           # View functions for handling requests
├── django_comments_app     # Main Django project directory
│   ├── __init__.py        # Marks the directory as a Python package
│   ├── asgi.py            # ASGI configuration
│   ├── settings.py        # Project settings
│   ├── urls.py            # URL routing for the project
│   └── wsgi.py            # WSGI configuration
├── manage.py               # Command-line utility for managing the project
├── db.sqlite3              # SQLite database file
└── README.md               # Project documentation

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository-url>
   cd django-comments-app
   

2. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`
   

3. Install the required packages:

   pip install django
   

4. Run the migrations to set up the database and set static objects:

   python manage.py makemigrations --noinput
   python manage.py migrate --noinput
   # python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
   

5. Start the development server:

   python manage.py runserver
   

6. Open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to view the application.

Alternatively you can go in folder scripts and run shell command startTest.sh. To clean all run cleanUp.sh

Note

For test in .env set these values: DJANGO_ENV not equal to production and DJANGO_DEBUG to True

Docker and K8s

Run startDocker.sh for Docker or startK8s.sh remember to set .env file: DJANGO_ENV must be equal to production and DJANGO_DEBUG to False

Usage

• You can view the list of comments on the main page.
• Use the provided form to add new comments or edit existing ones.
• Each comment can be deleted, with a confirmation prompt to prevent accidental deletions.

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests for improvements or bug fixes.