The django-shop from lisas7

django-shop's Introduction

A Django ecommerce site for a Star Wars fictional weapons trader.

Heroku app (Some functionality missing on mobile at the moment)

I had minimal experience with Django so a structured tutorial felt like it would be useful as a refresher and to fill in some areas of knowledge that I hadn't covered yet. I've continued with the Star Wars theme used in a previous small project. Following this tutorial has helped me to understand how to better organise a Django app and the deployment process.

What I learned:

Django

Using a context processor to access data across all templates.

Testing & Formatting

Using the coverage library to help identify where tests are needed.
Setting up test data and using the Client object.
Fixing import statements using isort.

Basket

Working with sessions: saving and retrieving data.
Using Ajax to dynamically update the number of items in the basket and the totals on the basket summary page.

Users & Admin

Overriding Django's built in user functionality to create a custom user model, forms, and views.
Sending an email with a unique token to validate new users or reset passwords.
Configuring the admin view display fields and filters.

Payment

I watched through the chapter of the tutorial for handling payments through Stripe but I decided not to include a real payment system for my fictional shop.

Deployment

Moving secret keys and other private data to environment variables using the Ubuntu .profile file.
Set up AWS account with S3 storage for static files and new IAM user.
Setting environment variables in Heroku.
Using the Heroku Procfile to handle database migration and load data.