Django REST #1 - Why && Installation

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Django Rest Dokumentation

1 - Why && Installation

1.1. Why??

Django is a Python framework to build Web-Applications. You can use it for small to large projects.
Here you can find some companies which are using django.

Reasons to use django:

  • Community: It has 25K readers on Reddit and 1.8K contributors on github.
  • Because of the community there are endless custom modules
  • large variety of Authentication policies
  • ORM´s for SQLLite, Postgresql, MySQL, MariaSQL, MongoDB, ...
  • Uses Serializers
  • on of the best documentations I ever read
  • has Internationalization
  • ...

1.2. Requirements

1.3. Installation

1.3.1 Projectfolder

Create somewhere a folder, in my case "tut-django".
Open your shell. Go inside this folder, init git and create a requirements.txt

mkdir tut-django
cd tut-django 
git init
touch  requirements.txt

Install via pip "virtualenv", create a virtualenv and activated it. Why you should use virtualenv?

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv ENV
source ENV/bin/activate

Add the following requirements to the requirements.txt.

django
djangorestframework
markdown

And install it and start your first django project

pip install -r requirements.txt
django-admin startproject tutorial

My project is called "tutorial". Inside you can find a lot of files. Don´t panic. In the next part I will explain what the files and folders means.

Inside the folder tutorial/tutorial you can find a file settings.py. Add the following:

....
INSTALLED_APPS = [
....
         'rest_framework',
]
.....

At the end we will try to run the service to check if everything is fine.

cd tutorial
python manage.py runserver

If you can see a line like this everything is fine.

....
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

Try to enter http://127.0.0.1:8000/ . You will find a nice landingpage.

Congratulation! You made it through the first part.

Part 2 soon



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