Django 2.0 - Rest-API with Heroku Integration

A REST api written in Django for people with deadlines

Technologies used

• Django: The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines (Django builds better web apps with less code).
• DRF: A powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs

Installation

• If you wish to run your own build, first ensure you have Python and Heroku globally installed in your computer. If not, you can get python here and Heroku here.

• After doing this, confirm that you have installed virtualenv globally as well. If not, run this:

      $ pip install virtualenv

• Then, Git clone this repo to your PC

      $ git clone https://github.com/gitgik/django-rest-api.git

• Steps

  1. Cd into your the cloned repo as such:

         $ cd django-heroku-rest-api

  2. Create and fire up your virtual environment:

         $ virtualenv  venv -p python3
         $ source venv/bin/activate

  3. Install the dependencies needed to run the app:

         $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Make those migrations work

         $ python manage.py makemigrations
         $ python manage.py migrate
         $ python manage.py createsuperuser

  5. Run It

      $ python manage.py runserver

  6. Test it Locally

     http://localhost:8000/users/

  7. Time to go remote!

  $ heroku login 
  $ heroku create project 
  $ git push heroku master 
  $ heroku run python manage.py migrate 
  $ heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser 

  Your project should now be live at:

  https://heroku_project_name.herokuapp.com/users/

  If you want to set your own project to support Heroku here is a detailed explanation:

  https://gist.github.com/agusalex/70146cb09381c0adc4b3a2f68d035cfa