ChrisKumm.com Django Back End

A simple Django back end for my portfolio site.

Features

• InstaArt API: REST API for InstaArt
• Admin page: A dashboard for managing everything in the database

Third-Party Libraries

• Django Rest Framework
• Django CORS Headers
• Django Admin Interface
• Django CKEditor
• Django Modern User
• Python Decuple
• Pillow
• Requests
• Black
• Pre-Commit

Environment Variables

You'll have to copy the .env.example file to .env and fill in the values.

Text Fixtures

Apps may contain a fixtures/ directory, which contains its test fixtures.

Additionally, there is a media/fixture/ directory which contains the media files for the fixtures. This directory is not ignored by Git.

To use the fixtures, simply run python manage.py testserver [fixture [fixture ...]]. This command loads the fixtures as test data which can be safely modified on the test server.

Known Issues

dumpdata in Windows

Using python manage.py dumpdata -o somefile.json in Windows (or at least PowerShell) will result in the following error:

(venv) PS C:\...\chriskumm.com_django> python .\manage.py dumpdata art | out-file -encoding UTF8 -noNewLine art_standard.json
CommandError: Unable to serialize database: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u02cc' in position 132: character maps to <undefined>
Exception ignored in: <generator object cursor_iter at 0x000001371B9280B0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\...\chriskumm.com_django\venv\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\sql\compiler.py", line 1649, in cursor_iter
    cursor.close()
sqlite3.ProgrammingError: Cannot operate on a closed database.

One way to get around this is by running the command from a virtual environment in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).