Quickly roll up Django app.md

Quickly roll up REST API with Django and Postgres.md

1. Prerequisites

• Install Python 3
• Install Pip
• Install Virtualenv
• Install Postgres
• Install Django

2. Installation

• Create project

mkdir Django-Postgres-Rest
cd Django-Postgres-Rest

• Create and activate environment

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

• Create structure

pip install django djangorestframework
pip freeze // See what has installed in the project
pip freeze > requirements.txt // Save dependencies list to file for future installation
pip install -r requirements.txt

django-admin.py startproject project && cd project

• Create a new app

python manage.py startapp app

• Migrate initial database

python manage.py migrate

• Run server

python manage.py runserver

3. Programming

• Register app to project Go to project/project/settings.py add app (the app we have just created) to INSTALLED_APPS array to register.

• Create a model for Post In App > Model.py add these code:

class Post(models.Model) :
  user = models.ForeignKey('auth.User', on_delete=models.CASCADE)
  creation_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
  post = models.TextField()

• Register Model to admin page In App > Admin.py

from . import models

# Register your models here.
admin.site.register(models.Post)

• Migrate Model to database again, then create superuser using command:

./manage.py makemigrate && ./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

• Open the server, navigate to localhost:__PORT__/admin and login using superuser.

BOOM__*