dotja / django-example

Django project with various example apps.

Django examples

A Django project with example apps.

This repo will be updated when new apps are added to it.

The current list of apps include:

1. app_users An app to demonstrate using a custom user model in Django.

2. user_payment An app to receive user payments through Stripe.

3. edit_photo An app that converts JPEG images into sketch using Celery.

4. flashcards An app that uses MongoDB to store flashcards.

Running this project

• start by installing the requirements:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

• the following environment variables need to be exported prior to use:

export SECRET_KEY='your django secret key'

export STRIPE_PUBLIC_KEY_TEST='pk_test_12345...'
export STRIPE_SECRET_KEY_TEST='sk_test_12345...'
export STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET_TEST='whsec_12345..'
export PRODUCT_PRICE='price_12345...'

export MONGO_USER='user'
export MONGO_PASSWORD='password'
export MONGO_HOST='0.0.0.0'
export MONGO_DB='flashcard_db'
export MONGO_COLLECTION='cards'

• to run the photo editing app you need to have rabbitmq and a Celery worker running as follows:

## run the rabbitmq docker container
docker run -d -p 5672:5672 rabbitmq

## start the Celery worker
cd django-example
celery -A django_examples worker --loglevel=INFO

• to run the flashcards app you need to have a mongodb container running:

docker run --rm -d -p 27017:27017 --name mongodb -v 001_initial.js:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/001_initial.js:ro -v mongodb:/data/db -e MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE=flashcard_db mongo --auth

• after that you can run the following:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver