Faculty Publication Management

About the Project

Faculty Publication Management is a project done as a mini project for Software Engineering, a course offered by the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. It helped us apply the concepts of various web technologies and realise the potential of web technologies in a real world project.

The tech used in this project are:

• ReactJS (Frontend)
• Django (Backend)
• SQLite (DataBase)

This project is about the following:

• Organizing the research papers, books, articles of Professors/students of certain educational institutions

• Exporting available paper in MLA, APA, UGC/TU, IEEE format

• Exporting in PDF or spreadsheet

• Searching and sorting the publications

Running the Project

• Clone this repository:

git clone [email protected]:parikshitadhikari/proj_fpms.git

Method 1 (Using Docker):

• Install Docker.

• Open terminal and run the following command:

docker pull python:3.9

• Now, in the root directory, run the command: docker build -t image-name and docker run -p 8000:8000 image-name. If any permission issues are encountered, run the command using sudo.

• If successful, you can view the project at: http://localhost:8000/ or http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Note: You need to have docker app running in the background!

Method 2 (Traditional way):

You need to have Python installed! Suitable python version is 3.9.

• In the root directory run the following commands:

pip install -r requirements.txt

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

And finally run the command:

python managa.py runserver