This website showcased the back-end of implementing a booking application on the Little Lemon Website. This is a Django application for managing a restaurant's menu and bookings, which includes basic functionalities such as creating and viewing menu items, as well as handling reservations.

Django: Web framework for backend development.
Django REST Framework: API development framework built on top of Django.
Pipenv: Virtual environment management tool.
Djoser: Django REST Framework extension for user authentication.

The project is composed of two apps, api and restaurant. The api app serves API endpoints of the project, while the restaurant app serves its frontend. The config (the project folder) directory holds the major settings of the project

install the dependencies

pipenv install

Activate the virtual environment

pipenv shell

The default database settings are

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'littlelemon',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '3306',
        'USER': 'admin',
        'PASSWORD': '',
        'OPTIONS': {
            'init_command': "SET sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES'",
        },
    },
}

Apply the migrations

python manage.py migrate

For authenticated API requests in the view of the restaurant app, a username and password must be provided. Follow the instructions bellow

Inside the restaurant app folder, create a file called .env and place the code inside it

USERNAME=your_username
PASSWORD=your_password

The api app has a total of 4 endpoints. Additionally, Djoser and SimpleJWT endpoints are available.

Each endpoint requires a SimpleJWT Token for authorization. Pass the token in the header of the request such as

{'Authorization': 'JWT <token>'}

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/menu-items
http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/menu-items/{menu-itemId}
http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/bookings
http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/bookings/{bookingId}

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/menu-items

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/menu-items/{menu-itemId}

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/bookings

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/bookings/{bookingId}

http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/me/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/confirm/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/resend_activation/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/set_password/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/reset_password/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/reset_password_confirm/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/set_username/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/reset_username/
http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/reset_username_confirm/

http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/users/

http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/token/login/
http:127.0.0.1:8000/api/token/refresh/

http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/token/login/

http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/token/refresh/

There are a total of 12 tests to ensure that each API endpoint and each of its allowed HTTP methods work properly.

Run the tests

python manage.py test

It should output something similar to this

Found 12 test(s).
Creating test database for alias 'default'...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).
............
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 12 tests in 6.036s

OK
Destroying test database for alias 'default'...