SETUP

• Install Python last version
• check Python3 version - python3 --version
• check pip3 version - pip3 --version
• if need update it python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
• Could be used also brew install pip
• python3 -m pip install Django
• django-admin startproject api - to create the project
• cd api
• pip install pylint - Setup linters for Mac (here is the link)
• python3 manage.py migrate - make first migration, it is mondatory to create the db.sqlite3
• python3 manage.py startapp rest_api - create the app
• Add 'rest_api', into INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py file
• python3 manage.py createsuperuser - creating of super user (remember username/pass for future)
• python3 manage.py runserver - to run server on localhost
• go to localhost:8000/admin and you will see login page to admin dashboard

MODELS

• In models.py file add the model
• Register this model in admin.py file
• Migrate by python3 manage.py makemigrations and then python3 manage.py migrate
• Now we can add a single item to db from admin panel

Setup Django REST Framework

• pip install djangorestframework - install the framework
• Add 'rest_framework', into INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py file
• Add serializers
• Add view for serializers
• Add urls

Heroku deploy

• heroku --version check you version
• heroku login - to login to your account
• heroku create [name of your app] - create an app on your heroku account
• echo python-3.10.2 > runtime.txt
• git add runtime.txt
• echo "web: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:$PORT" > Procfile
• git add Procfile
• heroku git:remote -a az-courses-api
• heroku buildpacks:set heroku/python
• python -m pip freeze
• python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt
• heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1
• git push heroku branch_name:main
• ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*'] in your settings.py