mpact

A Telegram-based expert support system

Installing a development environment

1. Install prerequisite packages

   $ sudo apt install python3.8-venv
   

2. Create and activate a Python virtual environment

   $ python3.8 -m venv venv
   $ source venv/bin/activate
   

3. Install requirements

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Set Environment Variables

$ export SECRET_KEY=<Django Secret Key>
$ export BOT_TOKEN=<Telegram Bot Token>
$ export TELEGRAM_API_ID=<Telegram API ID>
$ export TELEGRAM_API_HASH=<Telegram API Hash>
$ export ALLOWED_HOSTS='127.0.0.1 localhost'

There is a script for that

It is usually easy to set environment variables once for a production environment, and not have to do it again.

To make it just as easy for your development environment, copy the manage-dev.example script to manage-dev, and set the environment variables in it:

$ cp manage-dev.example manage-dev

Open manage-dev in your favorite editor, and set the values of SECRET_KEY, BOT_TOKEN, TELEGRAM_API_ID, and TELEGRAM_API_HASH

You can generate a secret key with

$ python3 -c 'import string
import secrets
chars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
key = "".join(secrets.choice(chars) for x in range(64))
print(key)'

Run

Now you can run a development server with

$ npm install
$ npm run dev
$ docker-compose up
$ celery -A telegram_bot beat -l INFO --scheduler django_celery_beat.schedulers:DatabaseScheduler
$ ./manage-dev runserver

Create a super user with the below command

$ ./manage-dev createsuperuser