Django Project

Code repository for Django-project

Dependencies

PostgreSQL Database

Setup database based on your OS. Please also install Postgis plugin for postgresql and postgresql-contrib package for pgcrypto. You can then create a DB as follows

Enter into postgres(superuser) user's shell

sudo -u postgres -i

Copy paste below commands till EOF and press enter:

export DB_NAME='project-name'
export DB_OWNER=$DB_NAME
export DB_PASSWORD=devpassword
psql <<EOF
CREATE USER $DB_OWNER WITH PASSWORD '$DB_PASSWORD';
ALTER ROLE $DB_OWNER SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
ALTER ROLE $DB_OWNER SET default_transaction_isolation TO 'read committed';
ALTER ROLE $DB_OWNER SET timezone TO 'UTC';
CREATE DATABASE  $DB_NAME WITH ENCODING='UTF8' OWNER='$DB_OWNER';
EOF

FOR BACKUP AND RESTORING DATABASE

1. Backup
sudo su - postgres
pg_dump database_name > postgres.bak

2. Restore
sudo su - postgres
psql database_name < backup_file

Installation

On Local Machine

Run the following commands to have the server up and running. Project based on Python 3.7.5

$ cp .env.example .env

And then take care of other formalities

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ make deps
$ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
$ make build

Run migrations

$ manage migrate

Create a super user

$ manage createsuperuser

Execute just make command with no args and the django dev server should be running on localhost:8000

When making any changes to the code before committing please run pre-commit install once to apply the hooks on git commits.