Python/Django CRUD Base

Description

This is a CRUD base for Python/Django. It relies only in HTML forms and submits to persist data.

Demo

Installation

Clone repository:

> clone ...

Create virtual environment:

> virtualenv env

Activate environment:

(Windows)

> .\env\Scripts\activate

(Linux/MAC)

> source ./env/bin/activate

Install requirements:

(env) > pip install -r requirements.txt

Creating new project

Create project:

(env) > django-admin startproject myproject .

Create the application:

(env) > python manage.py startapp myapp

Configure the App

Add allowed hosts to settings.py file:

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

Add myapp to installed apps array in settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'myapp',
]

Disable Admin App

To reduce the amount of static files, disable admin app in settings.py file:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # 'django.contrib.admin',
    ...
]

And disable the path in url.py file:

urlpatterns = [
    # path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

Add Static Root to the project

Add STATIC_ROOT to the end of settings.py file:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')

Finish configuration

Run the following commands to finish the configurarion:

(env) > python ./manage.py makemigrations
(env) > python ./manage.py migrate
(env) > python ./manage.py createsuperuser
(env) > python ./manage.py collectstatic

Sample quickstart

Finally run the server:

(env) > python manage.py runserver

And navigate to movies App address:

http://localhost:8000/movies/