eCommerce

An ecommerce API created using the Django REST Framework.

Features

Documentation

Getting Started

Installation and setup

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/Arthur236/e-commerce-drf.git

Navigate to the project directory

cd path to project directory

Install Python

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-362/

Install virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

Install virtualenvwrapper-win

pip install virtualenvwrapper

Make a virtual environment

mkvirtualenv project-name

Activate your environment

source _folder_to_env/bin/activate

Requirements

All the requirements for the project are located in the requirements.txt file in the project root.
You can automatically install all of them by typing:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Database

You can use any database you please but by default the app uses PostgreSQL. Create your database and make migrations:

python manage.py makemigrations

Then migrate the changes:

python manage.py migrate

Testing the application

python manage.py test

Running the application

First you must export or set the environment variables like so:

export DATABASE_NAME=db_name export DATABASE_USER=postgres_user export DATABASE_PASSWORD=db_password

Then run the application using:

python manage.py runserver