Django Boilerplate Application

This is a sample application where you can build a django application on top of this

• Profiling of django application , local, testing and production
• Django Rest Framework
• Serializes
• Admin template
• Token authenticated

Installation

Create a virtual environment & activate

$ python3 -m venv name
$ source name/bin/activate

Install pqsl, run the following command after logged into the psql console

CREATE DATABASE project;
CREATE ROLE project WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE project TO project;
ALTER ROLE project CREATEDB; 
ALTER ROLE "project" WITH LOGIN;

Profiling Your Django app

There are 3 types of profile in this template, local, production and testing. Configuration can be changed as follows while running the application.

python manage.py runserver --settings=config.settings.local # Default without params
python manage.py runserver --settings=config.settings.production
python manage.py runserver --settings=config.settings.testing

Dump your dp

Create custom command file seed_db.py it should be in your app/users/management/commands/seed_db.py and run the command. Run this command before staring your server in order to create login ids.

python manage.py seed_db

Token authentication

Add rest_framework.authtoken in the INSTALLED_APP

We need to add signals.py in the app root folder.

from django.conf import settings
from django.dispatch import receiver
from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
from django.db.models.signals import post_save


@receiver(post_save, sender=settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
def create_auth_token(sender, instance=None, created=False, **kwargs):
    if created:
        Token.objects.create(user=instance)

In the models import the signals which will act as a middleware

from .signals import create_auth_token  # noqa

Development

Create super user, go to the project root and create super users

$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate # db migrate

In the browser open http://localhost:8000/admin/

Home page

Todos

• Write Ansible scripts to deploy in the cloud
• Tie this app with mgunicorn