Django REST API for TwistR (Twitter with a twist)
Open up your favorite terminal (ex. Bash, Git Bash)
Run the following commands in a top-level directory such as ~, or wherever you keep your work.
Check the version of python by running
python3 -V
If this returns Python 3.5.0 or higher, you should be aiiiight.
If python3 isn't installed, or you think the version isn't high enough, try installing python3 through the command line using apt, or talk to Charlene :)
To manage software packages for Python, install pip, a tool that will install and manage programming packages we may want to use in our development projects. We'll mostly just need this to install Django.
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
Install a few more things for a robust dev environment... (Note: not sure if we need these if not planning on modifying any backend code, but I haven't tried running the server, etc. without them installed)
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
Now you should have all the tools to start python programming! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Navigate to wherever you want to keep the backend repo, and run
git clone https://github.com/charlorr/TwistR-Backend.git
Move into the repo
cd TwistR-Backend/
To make a python virtual environment, run
python3 -m venv ./env
Then start it with,
source env/bin/activate
Then install django.
pip install django djangorestframework django-cors-headers
Move into the first project folder
cd twistrbackend
Start the server! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay 2: Electric Boogaloo
python manage.py runserver
Go to localhost ... blah blah blah