About OrderUp

OrderUp is a Django app built to show a made-up menu of items people can order and allow them to check them out for the "chefs" to create and deliver!
There is no payment system in place so everything is free :D

Deployment

The platform of choice for demo deployment was Render. The following sections are the steps to deploy

Render Deployment (Paid: Blueprints)

1. Create a new Render project through Blueprints
2. Select this repository
3. Add a name and details, and it should be theoretically done (Untested)

Render Deployment (Free: Manual)

1. Create a PostgreSQL database on Render
   • (optional) Like in the blueprint render.yaml, you may use the following settings:
     • Name: OrderUp Database
     • PostgreSQL Version: 15 (Higher might work, but this project was built and tested on v15)
     • Database: orderup_db
     • Username: orderup_admin
   • All the information needed for set up will be found on the Info tab under Connections after it has been created
2. Create a new Web Service and connect it to this repository
3. Choose Python 3 as the environment of choice
4. Set the build script as ./build.sh
5. Set the start script as cd django && gunicorn OrderUp.wsgi:application
6. Open Advanced and set the following environment variables:
   • Set PYTHON_VERSION environment variable to 3.8.2 or a higher Python version number for Render (Default is 3.7 which isn't high enough)
   • Set DEBUG to False
     • You may use True during the first test deployment but the React frontend will only display at /react/index.html and other pages will be Django 404s
   • Set the SECRET_KEY to the Django SECRET_KEY
   • Set ALLOWED_HOSTS to a comma-separated list of allowed hosts
     • After creating the Web Service, Render will also provide you an [project-name].onrender.com url, so you should include that through editing in the Environment tab after these instructions end or none of the backend will work
7. Click Create Web Service and it's done!