olifante / django_for_startups

Code for the book Django for Startups

django_for_startups

Code for the book Django for Startups

Instructions for running locally on MacOS with Python 3.8

1. If not already installed, install Homebrew: https://brew.sh/.

2. Run brew update

3. Install Rust locally on your mac: brew install rust

4. Install Postgresql locally on your mac: brew install postgresql

5. Start Postgresql locally using: brew services start postgresql

6. Install Redis locally on your mac: brew install redis

7. Start Redis locally using: brew services start redis

8. Create a virtualenv using python3 -m venv .

9. Activate the virtualenv with . bin/activate

10. Install pip-tools using: pip install pip-tools

11. Run pip-compile --output-file requirements.txt requirements.in. This generates the requirements.txt file from the requirements.in file. If this doesn't work, try upgrading setuptools.

12. Set the following variables:

    • export CRYPTOGRAPHY_SUPPRESS_LINK_FLAGS="1"
    • export LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix openssl)/lib"
    • export CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix openssl)/include"

13. Run pip install -r requirements.txt. This install the pinned versions specified in the requirements.txt file.

Start server

python django_for_startups/manage.py runserver

Run tests

python django_for_startups/manage.py test

Check for outdated root dependencies

python scripts/list_outdated.py