⚡ Python Django Crypto

• Python-Django app to fetch and display crypto currency prices from the Coingecko cryptocurrency API
• Code from a tutorial by Pyplane - see 👏 Inspiration below
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📄 Table of contents

• ⚡ Python Django Crypto
  • 📄 Table of contents
  • 📚 General info
  • 📷 Screenshots
  • 📶 Technologies
  • 💾 Setup
  • 💻 Code Examples
  • 🆒 Features
  • 📋 Status & To-do list
  • 👏 Inspiration
  • ✉️ Contact

📚 General info

• Coingecko cryptocurrency API supplied crypto currency information in JSON format. It is free and does not require an API key
• Bootstrap starter template used in templates/base.html

📷 Screenshots

📶 Technologies

• Python v3 programming language
• Django v3 server-side web framework
• Coingecko cryptocurrency API
• Bootstrap v4 framework
• requests v2 Python HTTP library package
• Celery v5 Distributed Task Queue
• Redis key value store
• Homebrew v2 - not for Windows - replace with Chocolatey?

💾 Setup

• Install Python
• Install pip
• Install Django by typing pip install Django
• Run django-admin startproject crypto_proj to create a new project ref. docs
• Open crypto_proj in VS Code
• Run python manage.py startapp positions to create Python module
• Add code
• Run pip freeze to see list of modules installed. Ref. Docs
• Run python manage.py makemigrations for changes to models etc.
• Run python manage.py migrate to migrate the migration files.
• To add a superuser run python manage.py createsuperuser --username=joe --email=joe@example.com Ref. Docs and log into admin panel
• Run python manage.py runserver to run server on port 8000. A refresh is needed after any code changes

💻 Code Examples

• extract from - tba

🆒 Features

• Django inbuilt packages - admin dashboard

📋 Status & To-do list

• Status: Incomplete: paused at video 3 - 4.05 while I check Homebrew for Windows - video only shows Mac version
• To-do: check if chocolatey package manager can replace Homebrew which is not for Windows

👏 Inspiration

• Pyplane: Youtube: Django real time application | django channels, celery, redis | part 1 - overview
• Pyplane: Youtube: Django real time application | django channels, celery, redis | part 2
• Pyplane: Youtube: Django real time application | django celery in practice | part 3
• Pyplane: Youtube: Django real time application | django celery in practice | part 4

📁 License

• N/A

✉️ Contact

• Repo created by ABateman, email: gomezbateman@yahoo.com