JHS Car Rental

JHS Car Rental is a car rental service webapp built using Django. Below is everything you need to get started with the JHS Car Rental app.

Table of contents

• Running Locally
  • Installing python
  • Installing Django
  • Running JHS Car rental
• Contributor documentation
  • Folder/File explanation
    • Project
    • Apps
      • Users
      • Integrations

Running Locally

Installing python

You will first need to install python 3 and pip. If you have done this successfully then on windows you should be able to run:

Windows

python --version and pip --version

MacOS/Linux

python3 --version and pip3 --version

You should see Python 3.X.X (number may be different but anything 3.8+ is fine) and pip 21.0.1 from c:\users\YOUR_USERNAME\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.X) (Just make sure the python version number in brackets matches the number from above) respectively

Installing Django

If you have never used Django I would highly recommend looking into either the official tutorial, or the Mozilla Tutorial, or the [video crash course]((2) Python Django Crash Course - YouTube).

To install Django run:

Windows

pip install django

MacOS/Linux

pip3 install django or sudo pip3 install django

To make sure it's installed properly run django-admin help and you should see:

Type 'django-admin help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.

Available subcommands:

[django]
    check
    compilemessages
    ... # list continues

Running JHS Car rental

To make sure you all required dependencies installed, run pip install -r requirements.txt To setup the database, run python manage.py makemigrations followed by python manage.py migrate Next step is to create an admin to access the admin panel. To do so, run python manage.py createsuperuser and follow the instructions. To run the project simply run python manage.py runserver and you can naviagte to http://localhost:8000 to see the server.

Contributor documentation

Folder/File explanation

At the top level there are a few files README.md (what you're reading), manage.py and .gitignore. manage.py does not need to be touched, it is the file that runs when you start the app, and is setup by default from Django. .gitignore is used to ignore files that we don't need in the git repo (caches of files etc.).

The rest of the folders are the actual code. Django itself is structured into an app/project distinction, so I will tailor the rest of the documentation around that.

Project

everything inside /carrentalapp is the "project". Amoung other things this contains:

• The list of installed apps
• The global URL list
• The settings that are global across all apps
• Boilerplate file for running the server (wsgi and asgi)

You can think of this folder as mainly the server configuration, and each app as more of a particular peice of functionality.

Apps

Each app is essentially a particular peice of functionality that includes:

• The backend code (the models that drive the views that render the frontend templates)
• The frontend templates associated with the functionality
• Any additional URL routing changes that need to be made or URL patterns that need to be defined

There are a few apps inside the project, and they are detailed below.

users

This app contains the models, views and templates associated with getting the user logged in and accessing their data. One thing to note here is that the current homepage for the site exists here (in /users/templates/users/index.html)

api

This app contains the api endpoints implementaion using djangorestframework.

License

GNU AGPLv3