2024-11-22-Friday
created: 2024-11-22 05:23 tags: - daily-notes
Friday, November 22, 2024
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🎯 Goal
- [x] Configure the blog post subscription notification email so that when blog posts go from inactive to active a notification is sent to all
BlogSubscribers.
🌟 Results
- Successfully configured the full workflow of the blog post subscription feature for the blog app, closing out the blog post subscription issue .
🌱 Next Time
- Begin working on the Blog Post Interaction Issue. Specifically, begin by working on the "like" feature, then the comment feature.
📝 Notes
Yesterday I successfully configured the subscription feature to the Blog App. This creates an email list that wants to be mailed upon the release of a new blog post.
I decided to use Celery with Redis to help schedule the email sending task Asynchronously. I overrode the save() method of the Post Django Model in the Blog App so that upon saving a post that was now marked as is_active (and whose sub alert was not blocked with a new sub_alert feature), a mass email was sent to users informing them about the post.
I pushed these changes to Production and thankfully the email sent! I made some minor tweaks to the email but it was nice to see the subscriber email functionality working as intended.
The main issue here is that I don't have a way to configure / save this when developing the DIMMiN Blog on my local, however if I turn off the sub_alert on my local I should be able to save without sending an email alert. This may actually be a good thing because I don't want to send an email / sub alert when working on my Local Version. I double-checked this and found that it works fine as long as I don't do sub alerts on local (which is exactly the behavior I want). So this seems to sort itself.
Next I wanted to start thinking about user blog post interaction. Specifically, users with accounts in the Accounts App should be able to like a Blog Post and leave a comment about the post. I asked ChatGPT about this and I liked the structure it suggested. It suggested to create a Like and Comment Django Model that handles the interactions between the Post model of the Blog App and the Account model of the Accounts App.
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