Django Rest Framework

About

• Environment Setup
• Models and Custom user model
• User Registration
• JWT Authentication
• User Login
• Sending Email
• User Email Verification
• Unittesting
• Viewsets and urls
• Generic API Views
• CORS and REST
• Django Template and Static Setup
• Pagination Support
• API Documentation
• Postman documentation integration
• Protect documentation views
• Admin and models
• Test coverage and reporting
• Github + Travis ci integration
• Deployment

Environment Setup

• Creating Django Project
  • django-admin startproject todolistapi .
• Virtual Environment Setup
  • Create virtual Environment

  virtualenv DRF

  • Activate virtual Environment

  source DRF/bin/activate

  • Install the Requirments

  pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Settings.py
  • INSTALLED_APPS = [
  • 'rest_framework',
  • ]
• Creating New Apps
  • python manage.py startapp todos
  • python manage.py startapp authentication
• Update Setings.py
  • INSTALLED_APPS = [
  • 'todos',
  • 'authentication', ]
• Initialize Git
  • git init
  • Adding .gitignore file

Models and Custom user model

• Creating a Tracking Model (Step - 1)
  • Create helpers folder
  • init.py
  • models.py
• Writing code in models.py

  from django.db import models
  class TrackingModel(models.Model):
      created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)
      updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now = True)
      class Meta:
         abstract = True
         ordering = ('-created_at')
  

• Edit Authentication Model

  from django.db import models
  from helpers.models import TrackingModel
  
  class User(TrackingModel):
      pass
  

• Updating a Tracking Model (Step - 2)
  • Edit Authentication Model

  from django.contrib.auth.models import (PermissionMixin,BaseUserManager,AbstractBaseUser)
  
  class User(AbstractBaseUser,PermissionMixin,BaseUserManage):
  username_validator = UnicodeUsernameValidator()          // copying from PermissionMixin > AbstractUser
  
  class MyUserManager(UserManager):
     pass
  
  

  • Update Settings.py
    • AUTH_USER_MODEL = "authentication.User" git commit id - https://github.com/niklaus18/TOdolist/commit/2b705ac0dd7bc06782563d8e4d85c2fd327e6092

User Registration

JWT Authentication

User Login

Sending Email

User Email Verification

Unittesting

Viewsets and urls

Generic API Views

CORS and REST

Django Template and Static Setup

Pagination Support

API Documentation

Postman documentation integration

Protect documentation views

Admin and models

Test coverage and reporting

Github + Travis ci integration

Deployment