Auction Site

Introduction

A website for auction where users are either buyers or sellers. Buyers can bid on available auctions and sellers can add new items to sell.

Installation

To run the project as a dev you can just run the Django server for backend and Vite server for React as frontend.

Running Django server

1. cd auction_site assuming you've cloned the repo without changing root directory name.
2. Install all dependencies listed in requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a database on local pgAdmin and set up environment variables for settings.py in the folder backend/.
4. Run the server

python manage.py runserver

Runnind Vite server

1. Change directory to forntend/:

cd frontend

2. Install the dependencies:

npm install

3. Run the vite app:

npm run dev