andrekovac/django-poetry-rest-api

A basic Django REST API (with a 90s TV show theme)

A basic Django REST API

A basic Django REST API with the Django djangorestframework (with a 90s music theme)

The JSON response can be accessed via http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/

Run locally

1. Clone the repo.
2. Make sure you have poetry (python environment and dependency manager) installed.
3. In the project folder run poetry install to install dependencies.
4. Run poetry shell to open a new shell with all dependencies available.
5. Run cd backend && python manage.py runserver
6. Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/ to view the JSON response

Links

• Frontend to be deployed on Netlify...
• Backend

Concepts

Postgres

See the DATABASES entry in backend/settings.py

REST API

• djangorestframework
• Data model serialization (see shows/views.py)

Connect API to Frontend

• Fetch API data from backend via a React App

Re-create this project

• BASIC_POETRY_DJANGO_SETUP.md contains instructions to set up the basics of this project
• HOW_TO.md contains a step-by-step instruction to recreate this project.

Further guides

• DEPLOYMENT.md: How to deploy this Django project to Heroku
• ENV_FILES.md: How to secure your app in production with an .env file