Custom cake shop
See the website in action

Python should already be installed. This project is tested on Python 3.10 and 3.11. You may use other versions as you will, but YMMV.

Clone the repo / download code

Using virtual environment virtualenv/venv is recommended for project isolation.

Install requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Migrate database

python manage.py migrate

Start a dev server

python manage.py runserver

To configure those settings, create a .env file in the root folder of the project and put in there the following:

• SECRET_KEY - A secret key for a particular Django installation. This is used to provide cryptographic signing, and should be set to a unique, unpredictable value.
• DEBUG - A boolean that turns on/off debug mode. If your app raises an exception when DEBUG is True, Django will display a detailed traceback, including a lot of metadata about your environment, such as all the currently defined Django settings (from settings.py).
• ALLOWED_HOSTS - A list of strings representing the host/domain names that this Django site can serve. This is a security measure to prevent HTTP Host header attacks, which are possible even under many seemingly-safe web server configurations. See details at Django docs.
• CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS - A list of trusted origins for unsafe requests See details at Django docs.

Open webpage in your browser. If using dev server it will be available at localhost:8000.

Use Django Admin site to add or edit features (such as cake toppings). Access it by navigationg to localhost:8000/admin.

Create a superuser account:

python manage.py createsuperuser

The code is written for educational purposes on online-course for web-developers dvmn.org.