PACExplorer

An educational game using data from NASA's PACE mission

2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge - Kaohsiung
#PACE #NASA #Plankton #Aerosol #Cloud #Ocean #Ecosystem

Development

Suggested Python version is: 3.9

Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/heyaustin/PACExplorer.git

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setup environmental variables

Run the following Python codes and record secret_key

from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key
secret_key = get_random_secret_key()
print(secret_key)

Create .env file and add the following variables, where Django_SECRET_KEY is the secret_key you just generated.

Django_SECRET_KEY=secret_key

secret=""
client_id=""

DEV=""

Run the project

Run DB migration

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate

Run server

python3 manage.py runserver

Open the game website

Enter the following url in the browser

http://localhost:8000/

Purpose of folders

• base - Main web development
  • api - API settings (Our website currently does not support RESTful)
  • migrations - Update the database
  • templates - To override the front-end componenets in the folder templates in the main directory
  • models.py - Database settings
  • forms.py - To override the default form format of Django
  • admin.py - Settings of the backend monitor system
  • urls.py - Set up valid URL and the corresponding view functions
  • views.py - Website core logic implementation
• pace - Backend settings
• templates - Web templates to be overridden by files in base/template
• static - Include static resources, such as images, audio, .css, .js, fonts ...

Required dependencies

Please see requirements.txt for more details

• django v4.2.1
• pillow v10.0.0
• line-bot-sdk v3.2.0
• Bootstrap v5.1.3
• python-dotenv v0.21.0 ...

Contributors

• Austin
• Will Cheng
• YuehHsi
• Favicon: Icon by Ylivdesign