Django REST #1 - Why && Installation

<p dir="auto"><a href="http://www.django-rest-framework.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Django Rest Dokumentation <h1>1 - Why && Installation <h4>1.1. Why?? <p dir="auto">Django is a Python framework to build Web-Applications. You can use it for small to large projects.<br /> <a href="https://www.shuup.com/blog/25-of-the-most-popular-python-and-django-websites/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Here you can find some companies which are using django. <p dir="auto">Reasons to use django: <ul> <li>Community: It has 25K readers on Reddit and 1.8K contributors on github. <li>Because of the community there are endless custom modules <li>large variety of Authentication policies <li>ORM´s for SQLLite, Postgresql, MySQL, MariaSQL, MongoDB, ... <li>Uses Serializers <li>on of the best documentations I ever read <li>has Internationalization <li>... <h4>1.2. Requirements <ul> <li>an IDE like <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#section=windows" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Pycharm or a Texteditor like VIM <li>Python 3.5+ <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">download here <li>basic knowledge of Python3 <h4>1.3. Installation <h5>1.3.1 Projectfolder <p dir="auto">Create somewhere a folder, in my case "tut-django".<br /> Open your shell. Go inside this folder, init git and create a requirements.txt <pre><code>mkdir tut-django cd tut-django git init touch requirements.txt <p dir="auto">Install via pip "virtualenv", create a virtualenv and activated it. <a href="https://pythontips.com/2013/07/30/what-is-virtualenv/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Why you should use virtualenv? <pre><code>pip install virtualenv virtualenv ENV source ENV/bin/activate <p dir="auto">Add the following requirements to the <em>requirements.txt. <pre><code>django djangorestframework markdown <p dir="auto">And install it and start your first django project <pre><code>pip install -r requirements.txt django-admin startproject tutorial <p dir="auto">My project is called "tutorial". Inside you can find a lot of files. Don´t panic. In the next part I will explain what the files and folders means. <p dir="auto">Inside the folder <em>tutorial/tutorial you can find a file <em>settings.py. Add the following: <pre><code>.... INSTALLED_APPS = [ .... 'rest_framework', ] ..... <p dir="auto">At the end we will try to run the service to check if everything is fine. <pre><code>cd tutorial python manage.py runserver <p dir="auto">If you can see a line like this everything is fine. <pre><code>.... Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK. <p dir="auto"><span>Try to enter <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8000/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">http://127.0.0.1:8000/ . You will find a nice landingpage. <p dir="auto">Congratulation! You made it through the first part. <h2>Part 2 soon <p dir="auto"><br /><hr /><em>Posted on <a href="https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@cytex124/django-rest-1-why-and-and-installation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors<hr /><p>