1. install docker

2. install docker-compose

3. create a directory 'env' (it won't be pushed) to store critical information that MUST not appear in your repo.

   a/ create a file django_variables.env

   b/ set:

   DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=beatitud_back.settings.local
   SECRET_KEY=#SET A KEY#
   

   c/ create a file db_postgres_variables.env

   d/ set:

   DB_USER=beatitud
   DB_DATABASE=beatitud
   DB_PASSWORD=#SET A PASSWORD#
   

   e/ create a file elasticsearch_variables.env

   f/ set:

   ELASTICSEARCH_ALIAS=elasticsearch-local
   

4. docker-compose up --build -d

5. docker-compose exec django /bin/bash

6. python manage.py migrate

7. python manage.py createsuperuser

beatitud_back
|-   apps
|-  |- app_name
|-  |-  |- contrib
|-  |-  |-  |- drf # Django rest framework
|-  |-  |-  |-  |- tests
|-  |-  |-  |-  |- serializers
|-  |-  |-  |-  |- urls
|-  |-  |-  |-  |- views
|-  |-  |- fixtures # for tests
|-  |-  |- tests
|-  |-  |- migrations 
|-  |-  |- __init__
|-  |-  |- ... (everything genereated by django-admin 
                startapp except from those move into contrib/drf)
|-   env                                     # Apps env var
|-   beatitud_back                           # All settings for this project

1- As Django said, every app should be independent from the project that's why we put them in a different directory. It is really important to think each app as a gear that could be used by another system in the future. 2- Since we are using Django rest framework we set this contribution in each app in a subdirectory with every files changed by this contribution so as to be able to choose another contribution one day and know exactly what we have to alter. 3- So every script or tools of an app should stay at the root of the app directory. But views must be moved in the drf directory. And urls could be moved or should redirect to another urls in drf.

Always remember to use

python manage.py shell

If not you will have to do at every launch after

import django
django.setup()

Otherwise settings in console won't be populated. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/settings/. (You can setup pycharm to do it automatically in order to use its console.)