Blitz API

• Free software : MIT license
• Front-end repository : https://github.com/FJNR-inc/Blitz-Website

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Quickstart

We're going to install and configure the latest develop build of this API.

Clone the project

First of all, you need to clone the project on your computer with :

git clone https://github.com/FJNR-inc/Blitz-API.git

Create a virtual environment

Virtualenv provides an isolated Python environment, which are more practical than installing packages system-wide. They also allow packages to be installed without administrator privileges.

1. Create a new virtual environment

virtualenv env

2. Activate the virtual environment

. env/bin/activate

You need to ensure the virtual environment is active each time you want to launch the project.

Install all requirements

Your OS will need SQLite3 (<3.26) for unit testing.

Requirements of the project are stored in the requirements.txt file. Requirements for development related actions are stored in the requirements-dev.txt file. You can install them with:

WARNING : Make sure your virtual environment is active or you will install the packages system-wide.

pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Configure the database

Django has a system of database migration. You first need to apply all existing "migrations" to update your local database.

python manage.py migrate

Note: The project uses a squlite3 file as database to simplify developement. Once in production, feel free to switch to a DB server.

Test the installation

You can now launch an instance of the API and visit the included admin website.

To login into the admin page, you'll need to create a superuser:

python manage.py createsuperuser

You can now launch the instance with:

python manage.py runserver

You can now visit the homepage to validate the installation.

http://localhost:8000/ and http://localhost:8000/admin

Custom settings - NOT IMPLEMENTED YET

If you need to have custom settings on your local environment, you can override global settings in apiBlitz/local_settings.py.

Deployment process

1. Activate Deploy screen on frontend

Need to be execute in frontend repository

npm run deploy:prod:deploy_page

2. Deploy api code

./utils/deploy_prod.sh

3. Deploy frontend

npm run deploy:prod