Angular velocity
So it has been a while since I blogged about the 80 day project.
This is largely due to most of my free time has been spent working on the code.
Just to recap, 77 days into the project I still had quite a bit to do. Most of the work up to that point had been on getting pieces together, decide what tools to use, learning those tools.
The next job was to move the angular code around a bit and try and get django serving it all. In particular, I had decided it was probably worthwhile to have the angular.js partial html pieces go through the django template engine.
Getting npm up and running, with a recent enough version can be tricky, but there was an excellent guide on Installing npm on Ubuntu
With moving all the files around, .bowerrc needed editing a few times to point it at where the bower_components were now made to be installed.
Ever since the Global Hackathon, Team Bermuda I have had mild paranoia that cross-site-request-forgery is going to bite me at some point. I am hoping that by serving everything under django I will avoid that nightmare. In the meanwhile, I did at this csrf fix
A previous post, Nginx on koding.com came in useful for setting up postgres on koding.com as I decided it was more than time to get this thing running on a cloud based machine.
I have not found myself using django-angular, but the django angular integration docs have been an enormous help in highlighting issues in integrating django and angular.
In amongst all this I decided it was time to add django quiz to the mix.
This was mostly painless, following the django-quiz docs, but when I fired up the server it failed. The problem was down to me using django-allauth which effectively removes auth.User. The fix is to use settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL if you want to reference the User model in your own models.
I made the user model fix and made a pull request. Happily, the project maintainer actioned the request within the hour (many thanks Tom!) and I was able to update to the new version with:
pip install git+https://github.com/tomwalker/django_quiz.git
By February 1st I was starting to get comfortable with angular and the pieces were coming together. I have some simple partials, I have angular calling the django rest API and I have the beginnings of some views.
The next task is to display competitions a user can enter and provide an enter button. At this point I did a bit more thinking and reading. Deciding what logic to put in angular and what to put in django views and api calls needs a little thought.
From here the plan is:
- get the competion list and competion entry features working
- get team creation and team membership features implemented
- get the site up and running in the cloud
I have a simple test server on koding.com, but want to run the actual site on a different instance.