• Open Source: Visual Studio Code, PyCharm Community Edition, ATOM

• Proprietary: - PyCharm, Sublime

Python, Django, MySQL, Virtual Environment

• Python Version : 3.6 or later
• Django Version : 2.0 or later
• MySQL Version : 8.0 or later

1. Create a virtual environment (Recommend to use Virtual Environment Wrapper)

mkvirtualenv --python=`which python3` scaffolding -r requirements.pip

Note: if you face error related to the mysqlclient (Check troubleshooting below)

sudo pip install mysqlclient

2. Create a project database using MySQL console

mysql -u root -p

create database scaffolding_development;

3. Set environment

cp .env.sample .env

Note: update .env file variables as per your requirements.

• python manage.py runserver - For starting development server.
• python manage.py runserver --settings=main.settings.production - For starting production server.
• python manage.py shell - For starting interactive python shell.
• python manage.py makemigrations articles - For creating app migrations.
• python manage.py migrate - For applying migrations.
• pip freeze - To view installed python packages.

• Django

• mysqlclient

• python-decouple

• djangorestframework

• ipython

• Add comments to all the files
• Add unit test cases

• mysqlclient installation error

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/TuxEducation/django_rest_scaffolding/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new pull request.