learn-django-rest-apis

How to create REST APIs using Django: Talk delivered at Slack Community Jaipur

Setting up Django and DRF on unix based OS

Step-1: Install python3 pip and mysql server

sudo apt-get install python3-pip mysql-server

Step-2: Install virtual env and MySQL

pip3 install virtualenv pymysql

Step-3: Create a virtualenv

virtualenv -p python3 -v env

Step-4: Activate virtualenv

. env/bin/activate

Step-5: Create a Django project

django-admin startproject slackrestapis

Step-6: Create a mysql database

mysql -u root -p
create database slackjaipur;
ALTER DATABASE slackjaipur CHARACTER SET 'utf8';
CREATE USER 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON slackjaipur.* TO 'user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Step-7: Update settings.py for our db

ENGINE: django.db.backends.mysql NAME: 'slackjaipur' USER: 'user' PASSWORD: 'password' HOST: '127.0.0.1' PORT: '3306'

Step-8: Run migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Step-9: Install Django Rest Framework

pip install djangorestframework

Step-10: Create an App

python manage.py startapp restapis

And add 'rest_framework' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting

Step-11: Verify proper setup of project

python manage.py runserver

Setting up Django and DRF project on Windows

Follow this short offical django tutotrial on how to install Django on windows

Now to setup a Django project follow this tutorial

Follow Step-2 of this tutorial to install and connect MySQL to Django on Windows

Then follow step-7 to step-11 in previous part

Alternate: Setting up Django with MySQL can be a little bit tricky on windows if you are new. You can use this method instead :-

Install virtualbox on windows

Install Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS on it using this iso image

Follow this tutorial on how to install Ubuntu on virtalbox

After the installation is complete, run these commands in your terminal

sudo apt-get install update
sudo apt-get install upgrade

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