README.md

Django Rest JWT

JWT authentication in your Django Rest Framework project with Postgres.

Requirements

Django Rest JWT is a Python Django based platform.

• Python 3.4.3
• Django 1.11.3
• Postgres

Installation

Following are the steps to install this platform.

• Get in the root directory of the project
• Create Virtual Environment

$ cd ..
$ virtualenv -p python3 django_rest_jwt_venv
$ cd django_rest_jwt
$ source ../django_rest_jwt_venv/bin/activate

• Install Requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

• Setting up the Database

$ cd django_rest_jwt
$ pwd //It should display like this "/Users/(user)/django_rest_jwt/django_rest_jwt"
$ sudo vim local_settings.py
    //Add the code below and save the file
    DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
            'NAME': 'django_rest_jwt',
            'USER': 'postgres',
            'PASSWORD': 'postgres',
            'HOST': 'localhost',
            'PORT': '',
        }
    }
    // Note: Settings are for POSTGRES SQL
$ cd .. 
$ python manage.py migrate 

Testing

I have added the unit tests as well. Through following commands you can run all the tests.

python manage.py test  

To run any specific test if you want to:

python manage.py test authentication.tests.UserLoginAPITests.test_login_user 

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