Django

Django is a python based framework for web app development.

Install Django

python3 -m pip install Django

Setting up a project:

django-admin startproject project-name

Starting the dev server:

python3 manage.py runserver

Create an app:

python3 manage.py startapp app-name

Migrate models to the database:

python3 manage.py makemigrations 
python3 manage.py migrate

Databases:

• You can set up postgresql database server or a mysql server
• Connect the database to the project by making a change to settings.py
• reset django postgres database
• custom django user model
• Making database queries

Environment variables:

• django-environ

Django Views: Views take in an HttpRequest as a parament and return an HttpResponse. The HttpRequest can contain GET and POST data that can be used when constructing the view or responding to the request.

Django code:

• Django path function
• Django generic views

Deployment:

• Deploying an app to production
• Using WhiteNoise with Django - WhiteNoise 6.11.0 documentation - static file serving within django

Django Rest Framework:

• https://www.django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/quickstart/
• cdrf.co

Authentication:

• Django AllAuth
• Google OAuth provider
• https://learndjango.com/tutorials/django-login-and-logout-tutorial
• https://learndjango.com/tutorials/django-signup-tutorial
• https://ordinarycoders.com/blog/article/django-password-reset