nisarg1499 / blog-app

A backend blog app for demo at Python Web Conference 2021!

blog-app

A backend blog app for demo at Python Web Conference 2021!

Functionalities

• Create User
• Add blogs
• View blogs
• View blogs for specific author
• Solution of N+1 problem

Setup

To get this project up and running you should start by having Python installed on your computer. It's advised you create a virtual environment to store your projects dependencies separately. You can install virtualenv with

pip install virtualenv

Clone or download this repository and open it in your editor of choice. In a terminal (mac/linux) or windows terminal, run the following command in the base directory of this project

python3 -m venv venv

That will create a new folder venv in your project directory. Next activate it with this command on mac/linux:

source venv/bin/active

Then install the project dependencies with

pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you can run the project with this command

python manage.py runserver

Setting up postgresql database

Install Postgresql Linux

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev python-dev

sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Install Postgresql Windows

Tutorial PostgreSQL windows

Setup Database and User in PostgreSQL

Based on these settings in settings.py

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        # 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        # 'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
        "ENGINE": "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2",
        "NAME": "blog",
        "USER": "blog",
        "PASSWORD": os.getenv("POSTGRES_PASSWORD", "password"),
        "HOST": "localhost",
        "PORT": "5432",
    }
}

Follow the following steps

1. Enter into postgres admin terminal
   • Linux : sudo su - postgres
2. create database
   • Linux : createdb blog
3. create user called blog with password password using the createuser command of postgresql
   • Linux : createuser -P
4. enter psql shell and grant all permissions to this user.
   • All OS : psql

grant all privileges on database blog to blog