Cergen

A Certificate Generator and Sender app built on Django, React, Tailwind and Material UI. This application will generate the certificates for participants and send it to their email.

#django #material-ui #react #rest-api #tailwind

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About the project

CerGen is a web application which generates the certificates for the participants and send it to their corrosponding email. This application has the ability of generating the certificates for the participants who are participated in the event/contest. Also this application sends text message to the participants on their corrosponding phone number. This applicaion sends the certificate of participantion and certification of merit at the same time.

Features of the project

Filter eligible participants.
Choose templates for the certificate of participation/merit.
Upload image of the participant receiving certificate.
Upload images of the event album.
Sends certificate to the individual participant.
Downloads all generated certificates.

Technologies used

Getting Started

Setting Up Virtual Environment

Clone the project

git clone [email protected]:SiddhantTotade/cergen.git

Open the project in the terminal. The below command opens the project in vs-code but you can choose any editor
```
code .
```
In the terminal type command to create a virtual environment. Prefer root directory for venv
- The below command create a virtual environment in a specific directory
```
python -m venv <name_of_venv>
```
  OR
- The below command create a virtual envvironment in the current directory
```
python -m venv .
```
After creating venv, Activate it. Go to the directory in which the venv exists and type command
```
source bin/activate
```
Deactivate the virtual environment.
```
deactivate
```
Before installing the requirements.txt check if there is something exists or not. If the command shows nothing then nothing is installed yet
```
pip freeze
```
After activating venv, install the requirements.txt.
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
Setting Up Application
After enabling the venv, run the command for creating migrations
```
python manage.py makemigrations
```
After creating the migrations of all the models, run command
```
python manage.py migrate
```

First - Running Django Server

Change directory to app
```
cd app
```
Run the django serever
```
python manage.py runserver
```

Second - Running React Server

Now, open another terminal and change directory to cert_gen_sen_app_frontend
```
cd cert_gen_sen_app_frontend
```
Inside react directory, run command to install node modules
```
npm install
```
After installing node modules, start the react server
```
npm start
```
Also you need to configure tailwind css for this project. Follow this guide to configure
```
https://tailwindcss.com/docs/guides/create-react-app
```
Important Notes
Try to generate app password of gmail while sending certificates.