Hackalog-Backend

Instructions for setting up this project

• Fork and clone the project in your device.
• pipenv shell
• pipenv install

Creating and securing firebase credentials

Below steps talk about creating and securing your firebase admin credentials, this step needs to be done only once for setting up your .env file.

• Go to Firebase console and create a firebase project.
• In firebase console go to settings > Service accounts
• Click Generate New Private Key, then confirm by clicking Generate Key.
• Securely store the JSON file containing the key. Encrypt your Json file containing key using steps code given below:
• Below code will generate a file named firebase_admin.aes, so if you already have this file(as it was present earlier on the repo) you may delete that file and then run below code..

import pyAesCrypt
bufferSize = 64 * 1024
password = "please-use-a-long-and-random-password"
# encrypt
# Here firebase_admin.json is the name of Json file you get from from firebase.
pyAesCrypt.encryptFile("firebase_admin.json", "firebase_admin.aes", password, bufferSize)

• Keep this firebase_admin.aes file inside the project at manage.py level.
• At the same directory level create a file named .env and put contents into it by copying from another file named template_env which is already present.
• In your .env put value of FIREBASE_DECRYPT_KEY as the password you used for encrypting.
• Similarly update the value of FIREBASE_DECRYPT_SIZE as based on what you get as output.

You have successfully created required environment variables.

• Now you can apply the migrations and start the server