This project uses Celery for background task processing and django-celery-beat for periodic task scheduling. Below are the steps and commands to get everything running for local development.

If Redis is not already installed on your system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install redis-server -y

Since systemd may not be available (e.g., in a Codespace), start Redis manually:

redis-server &

redis-cli ping
# Expected output: PONG

If redis-cli is missing:

sudo apt install redis-tools

This runs your web application on localhost.

python3 manage.py runserver

This command starts the Django application at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.
Use it to access the Django admin panel and trigger/view task results.

This runs the Celery worker, which listens for tasks and executes them in the background.

celery -A myproject worker --loglevel=info

• -A myproject refers to the project directory containing celery.py.
• --loglevel=info shows task processing logs in the terminal.

✅ Make sure Redis is running before starting the worker.

This runs the beat service, which schedules and dispatches periodic tasks.

celery -A myproject beat --loglevel=info

• This should run in a separate terminal.
• Beat uses the database schedule from the django-celery-beat app.

You can define and manage periodic tasks directly from the Django admin under "Periodic Tasks".