a-toms/8-mins-to-production-app-pt1

8 minutes to a production web app

Here is the code after completing the steps in my tutorial video.

Running Locally

1. Create a virtual environment (>=python 3.8)
2. Activate the virtual environment
3. Install the package requirements `pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Run the server: python manage.py runserver Your Django application is now available at http://localhost:8000. In production, the app uses the Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) with Django to enable handling requests on Vercel with Serverless Functions.

How it Works

Our Django application, example is configured as an installed application in vercel_app/settings.py:

# vercel_app/settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    'example',
]

There is a single view which renders the current time in example/views.py. This view is exposed a URL through example/urls.py:

# example/urls.py
from django.urls import path

from example.views import index


urlpatterns = [
    path('', index),
    ...
]

Finally, it's made accessible to the Django server inside vercel_app/urls.py:

# vercel_app/urls.py
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('', include('example.urls')),
]