QuantPair

Setting up the workspace

Make sure you have python installed on your system

• Setting up the virtual environment

  • Create a directory of your choice, for our purposes, we will call it test

  • Navigate to /test and create a virtual environment there by using command

    py -m venv QuantPair-Server
    

  • Now you should see a folder with QuantPair-Server as it description

  • Navigate into test/QuantPair-Server

Cloning and installing libraries

• Cloning the repository

  • Now clone the repository here by using command

    [email protected]:WebOps-and-Blockchain-Club/QuantPair-Server.git
    

  • You should see QuantPair-Server folder cloned in test/QuantPair-Server
  • Rename the folder to QuantPair_Server

• Installing required modules and libraries

  • Navigate back to test/QuantPair-Server

  • In your terminal, run the virtual environment using the following command

    Scripts\activate.bat
    

  • Now you are in the virtual environment

  • Navigate into test/QuantPair-Server/QuantPair_Server

  • Install most of the requirements using the command

    pip install -r requirements.txt
    

  • Due to some issues with synchronization, we will have to manually install some libraries

  • Execute the following commands one after the other

    pip install djangorestframework
    

    pip install psycopg2
    

    python -m pip install -U matplotlib
    

    pip install -U scikit-learn
    

    pip install tensorflow
    

Django Migrations and testing

• Migrations
  • Navigate into test/QuantPair-Server/QuantPair_Server
  • Now into your terminal run the command to migrate changes

    py manage.py migrate
    

  • Create admin and set credentials

    py manage.py createsuperuser
    

  • Make migrations

    py manage.py makemigrations
    

  • Cache migrations

    py manage.py migrate
    

• Run Server
  • Navigate into test/QuantPair-Server/QuantPair_Server
  • Type the following command to run the server

    py manage.py runserver
    

  • You should see something like this

    Watching for file changes with StatReloader
    Performing system checks...
    
    2025-01-25 00:05:49.282524: I tensorflow/core/util/port.cc:153] oneDNN custom operations are on. You may see slightly different numerical results due to floating-point round-off errors from different computation orders. To turn them off, set the environment variable `TF_ENABLE_ONEDNN_OPTS=0`.
    2025-01-25 00:05:52.336835: I tensorflow/core/util/port.cc:153] oneDNN custom operations are on. You may see slightly different numerical results due to floating-point round-off errors from different computation orders. To turn them off, set the environment variable `TF_ENABLE_ONEDNN_OPTS=0`.
    System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
    January 25, 2025 - 00:05:57
    Django version 5.1.2, using settings 'QuantPair_Server.settings'
    Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
    Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
    

  • Now you can follow the local-server address and test your api's