agusalex/django-heroku-rest-api

A Django 2.0 Rest-API with Heroku integration

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Django 2.0 - Rest-API with Heroku Integration

A REST api written in Django for people with deadlines

Technologies used

Django: The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines (Django builds better web apps with less code).
DRF: A powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs

Installation

If you wish to run your own build, first ensure you have Python and Heroku globally installed in your computer. If not, you can get python here and Heroku here.
After doing this, confirm that you have installed virtualenv globally as well. If not, run this:
```
    $ pip install virtualenv
```

Then, Git clone this repo to your PC

    $ git clone https://github.com/gitgik/django-rest-api.git

Steps
1. Cd into your the cloned repo as such:
```
    $ cd django-heroku-rest-api
```
2. Create and fire up your virtual environment:
```
    $ virtualenv  venv -p python3
    $ source venv/bin/activate
```
3. Install the dependencies needed to run the app:
```
    $ pip install -r requirements.txt
```
4. Make those migrations work
```
    $ python manage.py makemigrations
    $ python manage.py migrate
    $ python manage.py createsuperuser
```
5. Run It
```
    $ python manage.py runserver
```
1. Test it Locally
  
  http://localhost:8000/users/
2. Time to go remote!
```
$ heroku login 
$ heroku create project 
$ git push heroku master 
$ heroku run python manage.py migrate 
$ heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser 
```
Your project should now be live at:

https://heroku_project_name.herokuapp.com/users/

If you want to set your own project to support Heroku here is a detailed explanation:

https://gist.github.com/agusalex/70146cb09381c0adc4b3a2f68d035cfa