Chowist

Great places are chosen by great chowists.

This is an application that replicates core features of Yelp, and adds a couple more bells and whistles.

Here are some key features:

• Homepage for marketing purposes
• Profile for customized experience
• Places as list and detail views

Click here to see a quick walkthrough of the application.

Getting started

Here are some things to be aware of in development and production.

Local setup

Install dependencies and create a virtualenv instance:

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then run database migration:

python manage.py migrate

Finally, start up the Django development server:

python manage.py runserver

Local data

For local development, you can load some data:

python manage.py loaddemo .demo/places.json

Here are the loaded users for reference:

• admin with password admin (Super user)
• john with password john (Normal user)
• jane with password jane (Normal user)

Docker setup

Complete local setup with Docker by running a single command:

docker-compose -f compose/dev.yml -p chowist up --build -d

Production setup

For production, you will want to use gunicorn for running the server:

gunicorn -w 4 chowist.wsgi

When using Gunicorn, remember to host the static files from a web server.