lecture-18-simple-backend-api

Steps to get this django app running locally

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the folder you want to create your project in (e.g. cd ~Documents/Code)
2. Clone this repository with git clone https://github.com/Carleton-BIT/ITEC4012-simple-backend-api.git
3. Open the repository with PyCharm. You can do this by going file->open and selecting the cloned folder called ITEC4012-simple-backend-api
4. Configure your project interpreter. Go to file->settings, and selecting Python Interpreter under Project: ITEC4012-simple-backend-api, and clicking Add Interpreter->Add Local Interpreter
5. Choose the default settings and click OK
6. Then, you can install dependencies using pip install -r requirements.txt
7. Create a run configuration:
8. Configure it to run manage.py with the parameter runserver:
9. Create a file called .env in the lecture18-simple-backend-api folder
10. Generate a secret key by running python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())' in the terminal. Copy the output.
11. Edit .env (created in part 9) with a text editor like notepad, and add a line that says SECRET_KEY="your-secret-key-here". Paste the output from part 10 into 'your-secret-key-here'.
12. On the terminal, navigate to lecture-18-simple-backend-api/studentdemo and run python manage.py migrate
13. Run the server by clicking the play button for the run configuration you set up
14. Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000! Your app should load.