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• A series of activities provided to learn Django as a whole and as a backend

• pip3
• virtualenv
• django
• postgresql

• Virtual Environment

1. Use virtualenv to add a virtual environment

    virtualenv venv

2. Activate the environment

    source venv/bin/activate  #Ubuntu

3. Deactivate enviroment

    deactivate

4. Remove environment

    rm -rf venv

Check this info for windows

• Install requirements for python3

1. (Optional) Upgrade Tools

    pip3 install --upgrade setuptools #pip only for Windows

2. (Optional) Upgrade Pip

    python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip #python only for Windows unless there is other version

3. Install requirements in requirements.txt

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Environment Variables

1. In source folder aligned with manage.py create .env file

    plmat-drf\
        ... # other files
        .env
        manage.py

2. Create variables inside env file
   1. For development, copy the variables inside the development.env to .env
   2. For production, copy the variables inside the production.env to .env

• Setup Postgresql

1. Follow the installation on this guide
2. By default

    server: localhost
    database: postgres
    port: 5432
    username: postgres
    password: <your password entered via installation>

3. Those keys will be used via .env DATABASE_URL, replace:

    DATABASE_URL = "postgresql://<yourusername>:<yourpassword>@<yourhost>:<yourport>/<yourdatabase>"

    e.g  DATABASE_URL = "postgresql://root:123@root:5432/test"

• Common Commands for Django

1. Makemigrations

    python3 manage.py makemigrations

2. Migrate Applications

    python3 manage.py migrate

1. Run server for Django

    python3 manage.py runserver (port) # default is 8000