Django-MongoDB-CRUD-RESTAPI

Basic create, read, update and delete for students marks and total is here with super cool User Interface. MongoDB, A NoSQL database is used to store data. A Restful web service for accessing the students details is created and deployed into a docker container for easy management of infrastructure

Run application in docker container

1. Install Docker Desktop here
2. Go to the project root folder and run the following commands
   • docker-compose build
   • docker-compose up
3. Go to 127.0.0.1:8000 to view the output

Dependencies

• Django pip install django
• Djongo pip install djongo
• MongoDB
• Django Rest Framework pip install djangorestfamework

Start the MongoDB server

First we need to create the db directory where the database files will live in. In your terminal navigate to the root of your system by doing cd.. until you reach the top directory. You can create the directory by running mkdir /data/db. Now open a different tab in your terminal and run mongod to start the Mongo server.

Run

Go to the project directory and run python manage.py runserver

Access REST API

/students retrieves all student details
/students/<id> retrieves details of that particular student

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