django_jwt_template's Introduction

Django JWT Template Project

This backend template is built to be paired and implemented with the React_JWT_Template project

Recommended to use a virtual environment to contain all the libraries used with this project.

Within the main project folder, run the terminal commands to create a virtual environment folder and scripts.
python3 -m venv venv

  (on Windows)
source venv/Scripts/activate
Check the docs for Apple/Unix systems

Once the template is cloned and the virtual environment is activated, then:

Install the required libraries from the requirements.txt file with the following command line in the terminal
pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txt
If done correctly, all the library files will reside in the venv/Lib file

Once the installation is complete, navigate to the core/ folder in the terminal that contains the file manage.py.

Run the following commands in the terminal to build your basic starting database:
python manage.py makemigrations
^^This command stages all the database information (or changes), but does not create or modify your database
python manage.py migrate
^^This command takes the staged information and creates / modifies your database

At this point, you can launch the server and make all the existing routes available to access via http://localhost:8000/. This is the root URL that other routes are built on (such as http://localhost:8000/accounts)

Run the following command to launch your Django server:
python manage.py runserver
The built-in Django admin page can be accessed via: http://localhost:8000/admin/. In order to access the admin page, you will need to create a superuser using the following command in the terminal:
python manage.py createsuperuser
Once those fields are filled out, you can successfully log into the admin page.

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