drjkuria / games-api

Django REST API

Games-api using Django REST Framework

A simple Games-api built using the Django REST Framework (DRF).

About

A games api using the Django REST Framework (DRF). Shows how to develop RESTful APIs with Django and the Django REST Framework. In particular, the following topics are addressed:

• Virtual environment with Django REST Framework.
• Creating and working with models.
• Django REST Framework serializers.
• Class-based views
• Authentication of APIs in Django
• Testing the API

Getting Started

Installation

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/jonahkuria/games-api.git

Create virtualenv and install all requirements in requirements.txt:

cd games-api/
python3 -m venv <venv_name>
source <venv_name>/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

The code in this repository has been developed and tested using Python 3.7.3.

Prepare gamesdb database in postgreSQL:

sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE DATABASE gamesdb; 

# Quit postgresql shell
\q