Django Ninja Tutorial

Django Ninja with SQLite

Basic CRUD API for Employees and Department using Django Ninja. Deployed using Granian Server

Python Environment Setup (Local System)

You can create an isolated virtual environment using Python 3.13 and install packages using pip or pipenv or uv.

UV commands to setup environment and run the project

uv venv -p 3.13 --python-preference managed uv sync

UV command to upgrade python and packages

uv python upgrade uv sync --upgrade

UV export to requirements.txt

uv export --format=requirements.txt --all-packages > .\requirements.txt

Docker Compose Commands

Get running containers

docker ps

Build and Run in detached mode

docker compose up --build -d

To enter Bash Shell for migrating db changes or static files

docker exec -it <container id from docker ps> bash

To view logs of container. You can pass head to view first N lines or tail to view last N lines specified by argument after head/tail

docker logs --tail 1000 -f <container id from docker ps>