- Create a working directory for this project
- Start a django project named
blogwith 2 more apps there: one forpostand another forreply. I think 2 separate apps are needed for the beginning to separate from start the scope of each app and keep things related to reply feature or post feature in separate contexts. - I have Docker installed on my personal computer and I use a
Dockerfilefor any project I am doing. This way I am sure there is a separate environment for each project and I can install any dependecies I need which will not stay on my computer and by simply deleting the Docker image and container I am removing everything related to it. - Dockerfile was created with all the steps necessary to build a python project.
- There is also a
requirements.txtfile that lists all project dependencies. In our case it'sdjangoandgunicorn. - I used gunicorn as I think we need a HTTP server in front of django app that will serve the client. We can use for growing app performance and concurrent requests for future uses, like increasing the number of process that run the same app.
- I used to create a
docker-compose.ymlfile that is an orchestration tool used to build and run applications in a quicker way. It has 1 service at the moment there, but in the future we could add there another service for a separate DB like Postgres or Redis, another one for mailing service and so on. - Once I have this setup, I ran:
docker-compose up --buildthat is building if there is no previous build for this Docker image and after that starting the services. In our case, our Django app. - Regarding Django application, I began with setting up our
settingsfile where I add 2 more apps(post and reply) insideINSTALLED_APPS, otherwise they are not tracked. - For each of this apps, I created a
modelthat is actually the Database represantation of a object. - In order to see the applications models in the Django Admin page I had to register them inside
admin.pyfiles for each app. - A next step would be to create a superuser that will be used to access the Django Admin Panel by following the steps while docker container of our app is running:
- docker ps and taker the <container_id> from there
- docker exec -it <container_id> python manage.py createsuperuser and follow the steps to create one.
- I created
templatesdirectory that contains all.htmltemplates used to render information to the user. There is abase.htmltemplate that is inherited but each other file, as it contains the common elements from out app pages. - I also modified
settings.pyfile to show our project where do we place the Templates. - I continued to create the views for each of our page and a forms where was needed.
- For each present we have an url mapped to a view inside
urls.py. This way, when an url is hit, the application is checking which view to call and proceeds with it.
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