IsabellaChirwa-lab/CreativeHub-SA

Empowering South African creatives through technology # CreativeHub SA > **Empowering South African creatives through technology.** CreativeHub SA is a cloud-powered platform built to help artists, designers, photographers, musicians, illustrators, writers and other creatives showcase their work, connect with clients, collaborate with one another and grow sustainable creative careers. This project was developed as an original software engineering project for the **WeThinkCode_ Elective Programme**, demonstrating practical software engineering, cloud computing, data engineering and modern application development. > **Scope note:** this repo is submitted as the **Cloud Computing** elective project. The data engineering work (ETL pipelines, warehouse, analytics on this platform's data) lives in a separate repository so each elective has its own original, standalone proof of work. **Demo video:** _link goes here once recorded_ --- # Project Status Phase 1 (auth, artist profiles, landing page) is built and running locally. See Getting Started below. - [x] Project setup - [x] Authentication (JWT, register/login) - [x] Landing page - [x] Database design (Users, Artist Profiles) - [x] Artist profile view/edit - [x] Data project tracking and pipeline simulation - [ ] Portfolio uploads (Phase 2) - [ ] Creative feed (Phase 2) - [ ] Commission system (Phase 3) - [ ] Cloud deployment to AWS (Phase 4) --- # Getting Started ## Prerequisites - Python 3.11+ - Node.js 18+ - Docker (for local Postgres) ## 1. Start the database ```bash docker compose up -d ``` ## 2. Run the backend ```bash cd backend python -m venv .venv source .venv/bin/activate # fish shell: source .venv/bin/activate.fish pip install -r requirements.txt --break-system-packages cp .env.example .env uvicorn app.main:app --reload ``` Backend runs at `localhost`. Interactive API docs: `localhost`. ## 3. Run the frontend ```bash cd frontend npm install npm run dev ``` Frontend runs at `localhost`. ## Archi …