Dummy API App: Test Application for a public rest API

dummyAPI is a test app project to practice consuming and manipulating a public example API: Dummy API Example.

Features:

• Search and Sort views for the example employee database
• Authentication system (Register, Log-In, Variable Views)
• CRUD operations
• Django Framework
• Bulma CSS Framework
• Pytest & Coverage testing
• Profile Images from Random User Generator

To setup locally:

1. Clone the repo to your local machine
2. cd dummyAPI
3. python3 virtualenv venv (virtualenv name is variable. Current python version is 3.6.1)
4. Activate the virtual environment and then: pip install -r requirements.txt
5. python manage.py migrate && python manage.py createsuperuser (Follow the prompts)
6. And you're good to go! python manage.py runserver (Should be running on localhost:8000)

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Examples

REGISTRATION:

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AUTHENTICATION DIFFERENCES:

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This site was made largely to experiment with and understand different aspects of the Django web framework and public API interaction, and thus not all best practices were adhered to. I welcome any input that could help optimize this codebase. Thank you.