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User interface using Django to add staff and clients and associate projects.

Requirements

• Python 3.11
• Django 4.1
• Pyscopg2
• PostgreSql 15
• Docker

Running the Server

Define Database

In order for the Django server to communicate with PostgreSql, it is necessary to write the necessary information against the fields in the app/.env file. If the file doesn't exist, create it.

DEBUG=<True or False>
SECRET_KEY=verysecret
ALLOWED_HOSTS=*

POSTGRES_NAME=postgres
POSTGRES_USER=postgres
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres

SQL_HOST=db
SQL_PORT=5432

Creating & Running Docker Images

We can create images for development and production.

For Development

This command creates and runs development images with docker-compose.dev.yml files data.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

For Production

When your app/.env file is ready, then run this command for creating and running image. Thanks to -d flag, we can run the application in background.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d

Now your project is running at 127.0.0.1:8000.

Creating a Super User

After stopping the application, we reach inside the container and tell Django to create a superuser.

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml run web python manage.py createsuperuser

• -f stands for file and specifies which docker-compose to use. Use docker-compose.dev.yml for development and of couse docker-compose.prod.yml for production.
• web is the Docker container name for Django application.
• After entering this command, you need to create a super user with username and password.

Now you can start docker image again!