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Setup

• Make a directory for the project
• Install python3 and virtual environment with brew install python pipenv
• Run pipenv install django and pipenv install psycopg2-binary to create django application with PostgreSQL
• Run pipenv run django-admin startproject <project name> . to initialize the project
• Start the virtual environment with pipenv shell
• Create the application inside the project with django-admin startapp <application name>
• Open PostgreSQL with psql -d postgres
• Create the database, user, password, and privileges for the application
• Update settings.py to reflect the current database
• python3 manage.py runserver to check everything has been installed correctly!

Models & Admin

• Make Models in models.py with Primary Key and Foreign Key Relationships
• Run python3 manage.py makemigrations to connect the Models to the database
• Run python3 manage.py migrate to copy the data over
• Create a superuser for the admin panel python3 manage.py createsuperuser
• Register the Models in admin.py
• Visit localhost to populate local database

CRUD in Django views

• Import Models in views.py
• Create python methods for list, detail, create, update, and delete
• Add urls.py to the Application directory
• Create urlpatterns paths for all python methods
• Add forms.py to the Application directory and create ModelForms
• Add templates to the Application directory
• Create html pages for base along with list, detail, and form for each Model
• Add the includes path to urls.py in the Project directory
• Update all html pages to display data from the database
• Connect Stylesheet and add CSS to Django views

Deploy

• Install dependencies pipenv install django-cors-headers gunicorn whitenoise dj-database-url django-heroku python-decouple
• Create requirements.txt from virtual environment by running pip freeze > requirements.txt
• Create Procfile in the Root directory and add web: gunicorn <project name>.wsgi to it
• Add cors and adjust the secret_key in settings.py
• Run heroku create honeydo-app to create the Heroku copy of your application
• Run heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev to connect the database
• Upload to Heroku git push heroku master
• Migrate the database to Heroku heroku run python manage.py migrate
• Open the application! heroku open