https://mom-network-backend.herokuapp.com/ and one of the following endpoints:

• admin/ api-auth/ dj-rest-auth/ dj-rest-auth/registration/
• profiles/
• profiles/id
• posts/
• posts/id
• comments/
• comments/id
• likes/
• likes/id
• followers/
• followers/id
• newsletter/
• newsletter/id
• messages/
• messages/id
• page/
• page/id

• Install Django: pip3 install django

• Create Project: django-admin startproject api_for_mom .

• Install Cloudinary Storage: pip install django-cloudinary-storage

• Install Pillow (Image Processing): pip install Pillow

• Create env.py file and store the Cloudinary url value

• In settings.py, add Cloudinary to installed apps and create storage

1. Create the App: python manage.py startapp my_app_name

   • add it to installed apps in settings.py.

2. Make a Model:

   • from django.db import models
   • from django.contrib.auth.models import User
   • class my_Model_name(models.Model):
   • all the fields, methods and the Meta class
   • migrate into your database: in the Terminal
     • python manage.py makemigrations
     • python manage.py migrate

3. Create a Serializer for this Model: create the serializers.py file, inside that file:

   • from rest_framework import serializers,
   • .models import my_model_name

4. Make generic Viewset, in views.py:

   • from rest_framework import generics, permissions
   • from my_main_app_name.permissions import IsOwnerOrReadOnly
   • from .models import my_Model_name
   • from .serializers import my_Serializer_name
   • other imports

5. Create the Route(s) in urls.py

With Postman

The Deployment of the Mom Network API has been completed with the following steps:

1. Create Heroku App

2. Create a new external ElephantSQL database

3. Connect ElephantSQL to Heroku

4. Install and configure extra libraries

   • Install dj_database_url
   • Install gunicorn
   • Create Procfile for Heroku: Add code to let Heroku know how to run the project
   • Set the ALLOWED_HOSTS
   • Install CORS

5. Set remaining environment variables

   • in settings.py
   • Heroku config vars

6. Connect the project’s GitHub repo to Heroku

Build a REST API with Django REST Framework: https://medium.com/swlh/build-your-first-rest-api-with-django-rest-framework-e394e39a482c

Draw SQL Graph: https://drawsql.app/

Seán Murphy - the course tutor for friendly help with database reset and refactoring some code

Richard Wells - the course mentor for friendly guidance and a project initiation session

Jakob Lövhall - help with maintaining the study schedule, countless hours of babysitting and motivational encouragement