Operations

run commands from root of the django project

Setup python env

python3 -m venv .venv

dev

import os
import pathlib as pl
import subprocess as sp

cwd = pl.Path(os.getcwd())
if not cwd.glob(".gitignore"):
    exit(1)

sp.Popen(["/bin/sh", ".venv/bin/activate"])

sp.run("python -m pip install -r requirements-base.txt", shell=True)
sp.run("python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt", shell=True)

sp.run("python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt", shell=True)

prod

import os
import pathlib as pl
import subprocess as sp

cwd = pl.Path(os.getcwd())
if not cwd.glob(".gitignore"):
    exit(1)

sp.Popen(["/bin/sh", ".venv/bin/activate"])

sp.run("python -m pip install -r requirements-base.txt", shell=True)

sp.run("python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt", shell=True)

Project setup

Start project and apps

source .venv/bin/activate
django-admin startproject dj_conf .
django-admin startapp core
django-admin startapp api

Setup environments

python -c "from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())"

# .env
SECRET_KEY="generated key"

# .env.dev
DEBUG=True
ALLOWED_HOSTS="*"
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE=False
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=False
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=False

# .env.prod
DEBUG=False
ALLOWED_HOSTS="*"
CSRF_COOKIE_SECURE=True
SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE=True
SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT=True

Configure project settings

• settings are split across 3 files: base, dev and prod

Database

Setup core models

• setup models and register with admin

• fixtures for initial data

• to prepare fixtures after models are setup and some data added using admin page

  • make admin user

./manage.py createsuperuser

./manage.py dumpdata auth > ./core/fixtures/core/admin.json
./manage.py dumpdata core > ./core/fixtures/core/sample-data.json

Prepare db

• initial load

./manage.py makemigrations && ./manage.py migrate
./manage.py loaddata core/admin.json core/sample-data.json

Run server

dev

./manage.py runserver --settings=dj_conf.settings.dev

prod

./manage.py runserver --settings=dj_conf.settings.prod