best-blog-in-the-world

Django Girls blog

Installation

• Install better virtual environment. Either virtualenv or virtualenvwrapper
• For virtualenv: pip install virtualenv
• For virtualenvwrapper: pip install virtualenvwrapper (Note: may not work on Windows)
• Create virtualenv. Either virtualenv virtual && source virtual/bin/activate or mkvirtualenv blog && workon blog
• Install Django pip install Django
• Freeze requirements pip freeze > requirements.txt
• Note: Next time install project with pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Docker

• For Windows: https://download.docker.com/win/stable/Docker%20for%20Windows%20Installer.exe
• For Mac: https://download.docker.com/mac/stable/Docker.dmg
• Run Docker service in background

Setup database

• Create database service docker-compose up
• After first boot database service will require restart
• Restart database service with Ctrl+C and run again docker-compose up
• Do not close database service terminal window
• Change database config in settings.py

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'postgres',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': 5433,
    }
}

Configure project for new database

• Install PostgreSQL support library pip install psycopg2
• Apply migrations python manage.py migrate
• Create superuser python manage.py createsuperuser

Use DataGrip or PyCharm Professional Database view

• Configure new postgres connection under localhost:5433
• Use database postgres and login postgres
• View tables auth_user, django_migrations and blog_post

Run

• Run server python manage.py runserver

Start coding

• Create your own branch git checkout -b $name
• Use django-admin startapp $name or python manage.py startapp $name where $name is your name
• Add changes with git add . && git commit -m "Your message here."
• Push it to GitHub git push origin $name

Tasks

• Install https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions
• Install https://github.com/bpython/bpython
• Remember to freeze requirements pip freeze > requirements.txt
• Use python manage.py shell_plus
• Notice how models are automatically loaded and how autocomplete works
• Use shell_plus in future in favour of shell
• Add, commit and push changes to your branch on GitHub
• Make your first Pull Request on GitHub (your branch to master)

Task ideas

• Django Girls extension (skip optional steps): https://djangogirls.gitbooks.io/django-girls-tutorial-extensions
• Do some agile stuff (daily, retro, brainstorming and planning)
• Conquer the moon!