Hackalog-Backend

Instructions for setting up this project

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.
Save the Json file containing key details, with name firebase_admin.json in same level directory as manage.py.
Open a file named encrypt_credentials.py already present in same directory, and edit the password(line: 6) you want to use for encryption. Note: You are advised to use long and random password, as you do not need to remember it after that.
Run python encrypt_credentials.py to encrypt your Json file. This will generate a file named firebase_admin.aes and will also print FIREBASE_DECRYPT_SIZE in the output.
Create a file named .env and copy contents into it from another file named template_env which is already present.
In your .env file put the value of FIREBASE_DECRYPT_KEY as the password you used for encryption, and FIREBASE_DECRYPT_SIZE as the number generated in output that came after encrypting the file.
Undo the changes you made to encrypt_credentials.py(that is again make the password as please-use-a-long-random-password), otherwise your encryption key(password) will become public.

You have successfully created required environment variables.