Airtech Flight Booking System

An flight booking API for a fictional company Airtech to automate their current spreadsheet based system.

The API is built on Django and Django Rest Framework, Postgres database, Redis queues and caches. It is configured for deployment to Heroku. Try it out here

Features

1. User registration and login
2. Booking and reserving flight tickets
3. Flight status updates
4. Flight booking updates

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• AWS Account
• Heroku Account

Installation

First setup Docker and Docker Compose on your machine.

Start the Docker daemon.

Run the command make start_logs and the server should start up with the default settings.

The application will be accessible from 0.0.0.0:8000 on your browser or API Client (Such as Postman).

You can configure your own environment variables by making a copy of the .env-sample file and modifying the values on it. The file as is is appropriately setup for the development environment, just rename it to .env. Profile photo uploads and emails will however not work till you setup the AWS credentials and setup a default send as email address.

Useful Commands

• make start

  Starts the project in the background

• make start_logs

  Starts the project in the foreground with docker output on the terminal

• make start_build

  Rebuilds the Docker images and starts the project as in make start_logs

• make stop

  Stops the Docker containers and cleans up

• make bash

  Starts a terminal inside the Docker environment

• make clean

  Stops the Docker containers, cleans up the containers and deletes any .pyc files

• make shell_plus

  Starts the project and creates an interactive Django shell

• make psql

  Starts the project and opens psql for postgres

Documentation

The app documentation is accessible here.