# Project purpose

## Internal Apps
### Accounts
* User
    * custom User model subclassing AbstractUser as per best practices
* UserProfile
    * adds profile to default Django user
        * profile photo
        * website 
        * bio
        * location


## External dependencies 

### Coverage
[https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy](https://github.com/nedbat/coveragepy)
#### Why
* gotta test
* I hate keeping track of what needs tests
### Python Decouple
[https://pypi.org/project/python-decouple/](https://pypi.org/project/python-decouple/)
####Why
* Decouple helps you to organize your settings so that you can change parameters without having to redeploy your app.
* Allows committing settings.py by keeping not-committed settings in one place (.env)

### Django Taggit
[https://github.com/alex/django-taggit](https://github.com/alex/django-taggit)
####Why
* Simplest way to get robust tagging capabilities
* When I wrote my own, this is what I wrote


### Django Storages
[https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages](https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages)
####Why
* Simplest way to make all static assets go to Amazon S3 
* Simplifies migrating server setups by keep static assets off the server
### Django Registration
[https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration/](https://github.com/ubernostrum/django-registration/)
####Why
* Simplest way to handle all aspects of registration/confirmation
* written by James Bennett
### pwned-passwords-django
[https://github.com/ubernostrum/pwned-passwords-django](https://github.com/ubernostrum/pwned-passwords-django)
####Why
* Because we should inform people when their passwords are compromised
* written by James Bennett
### Django-Extensions
[https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions](https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions)
####Why
* Because I'd go crazy without it. shell_plus is a godsend