Anime Dashboard App

This codebase is for the "A day in the life of a developer - Building a dashboard app with Node.js, Django and Next.js" article which you can find on my blogs:

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Prerequisites

• PostgreSQL installed
• MySQL installed
• SQLite installed
• Database Management System installed (Azure Data Studio or alternative)
• Node and npm installed
• Python installed with virtualenv or an alternative

Project install and setup

You might need to use a different Python command when using Python it depends on how your computer is configured. For example you might need to use the command python3 or python. The same applies to using pip or pip3.

1. Run the command npm install inside of the manga-backend-express and manga-client folders to install the project dependencies
2. Run the command npm run dev to start the servers for manga-backend-express and manga-client directories
3. Run the command python3 manage.py runserver from the directory manga-backend-django/manga to start the Django server

Server running ports

The manga-backend-express server and manga-backend-django are both running on port 8000. So either change the port number for one of them or just run one server at a time.

Node.js Express environment variables

The manga-backend-express server requires a .env file in the root folder. See this example below which is setup to work with postgresql databases.

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:@localhost:5432/manga?schema=public"
PORT="8000"
ENVIRONMENT="development"