🪷 Shop for Buddhas

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An e-commerce web app built with Django. Originally deployed with Heroku + AWS S3 + Stripe, now simplified to run locally with SQLite.

✨ Features: - Browse products (fixtures included 🛍️) - Product categories & images - User accounts (login/register) - Cart & checkout flow (Stripe removed in this version) - Blog & testimonials

📸 Screenshots

🚀 Getting Started

Clone the repo and set up your environment:

⚠️ Make sure to use the same Python version that this project was developed with (Python 3.9). Newer versions (e.g., 3.12, 3.13) may cause dependency errors with some packages.

git clone https://github.com/daidensacha/shop-for-buddhas.git
cd shop-for-buddhas

# Create & activate virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # (Mac/Linux)
venv\Scripts\activate      # (Windows)

# Install dependencies
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

⚙️ Configuration

Create an env.py file in the project root:

import os

os.environ["SECRET_KEY"] = "your-secret-key"
os.environ["DEBUG"] = "True"
os.environ["DEVELOPMENT"] = "True"

⚠️ No AWS/Stripe/Heroku configuration is required --- this setup uses SQLite for simplicity.

📂 Database Setup

Run migrations and load fixtures:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

# Create a superuser for admin login
python manage.py createsuperuser

Load categories & products:

Order is important!!

python manage.py loaddata products/fixtures/categories.json
python manage.py loaddata products/fixtures/products.json

▶️ Run the Server

python manage.py runserver

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000.

🧰 Tech Stack

• Backend: Django 3.2.8

• Database: SQLite (local)

• Frontend: Django templates + Bootstrap

• Auth: Django Allauth

• Other: Crispy Forms, Taggit

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Built during my Diploma of Software Development course (2021)

• Refreshed in 2025 with simplified local setup