bawapython / django_inventory

An inventory demo project with Python an Django

Inventory project with Django

An inventory demo project with Python an Django 1.9 using twitter bootstrap 3 and pagination.

Installation

• Install Python (if you are using Linux, you already have Python installed)
• Install Django
• Install Pip to manage dependencies

Install these features using Pip;

• Bootstrap Form App
• Minify HTML
• Django REST framework

Database

I have an SQLite database. To browse and manage data, you can use sqlbrowser.

Run the server

python manage.py runserver

Now you can visit the application URL: http://localhost:8000/

Administration

Now you can access the admin area:

http://localhost:8000/admin/

Create a superuser:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Testing

To run all unit test:

python manage.py test

REST APIs

Here are the REST calls (made with Django REST framework)

• Items list: GET /api/v1/items/
• Item details: GET /api/v1/items/{id}
• Delete an item: DELETE /api/v1/items/{id}
• Insert a new item; POST /api/v1/items/

Deployment

Django deployment chelist:

• Be sure to upload the files on your server and have Django installed on your server
• Set debug mode to false: on settings.py simply change DEBUG = False
• Check every kind of tests (unit tests and functional tests etc.)

TODO

Some next steps about practicing web development with Python and Django:

• Switch to MySQL and use joins (with a category table for example)
• Admin area with many-to-many data relationships
• Admin area template customization
• Database tree structure with parent child relationship