guilan-ace-backend/
  apps/
    users/
    blog/
    gallery/
    events/
    communications/
    payments/
    certificates/
  core/
  config/
  static/
  templates/
  manage.py

Local setup

python -m venv .venv
.venv\\Scripts\\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp .env.example .env
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Tests

Install test dependencies, then run the two pytest suites:

python -m pip install -r requirements-test.txt
python -m pytest -m unit
python -m pytest -m integration

CI uses PostgreSQL for integration tests and combines branch coverage from both suites. The same coverage gate can be run locally after configuring the test database:

python -m coverage run -m pytest -m unit
python -m coverage run --append -m pytest -m integration
python -m coverage json -o coverage.json
python scripts/check_coverage.py coverage.json --minimum 80

Coverage includes executable modules in apps, core, and config. The fixed exclusions are migrations, tests, __init__.py, apps.py, config/settings, ASGI/WSGI entrypoints, and constant-only service config modules (location, notifications, and zarinpal). Every included module must reach 80% combined statement and branch coverage.

Notes

Domain routers live under apps/<domain>/api.
Shared auth helpers live in core/authentication.py.
Shared base models, admin helpers, choices, and template tags live under core/.

Project-local skills

Backend implementation guidance is vendored in .agents/skills/: api-and-interface-design, deprecation-and-migration, and test-driven-development. Shared team guidance is also included: grill-me, grilling, planning-and-task-breakdown, documentation-and-adrs, and git-workflow-and-versioning. These directories are part of this repository so they are available after cloning it.