Django Examples

Repository contains basic example of how to use django-celery to run Async task. It is a basic posts application which also includes good example of how to use mixins.

• Send email on User registration using rabbitmq and django-celery.
• Optimize Number of queries using select_related and prefetch_related.
• Create custom middleware to log every query being generated by Django ORM layer.
• Create get,post,put API quickly with model mixins.
• example for Class based paginatinos.

Setup steps:

• Create virtualenv : virtualenv venv
• Activate virtualenv : source venv/bin/activate
• install required packages :sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-client python-dev libpq-dev python-psycopg2 git python-virtualenv
• pip install -r requirements.txt
• Install postgres and create database named posts_app
• migrate : python manage.py migrate
• python manage.py runserver

please consider adding settings_local.py in your local when you clone this repo. add following settings to setup Email functionality.

EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '********@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '*****'
DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
SERVER_EMAIL = EMAIL_HOST_USER
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'