• To easily create gitignore for Python: npx gitignore python
• To create a django project: django-admin startproject real_estate .
• To create a django app: python3 manage.py startapp users
• Setup Postgres
  • Install Postgres: brew install postgresql
  • Connect to Postgres as the default user or create a new user: pqsl postgres OR psql -U postgres
  • Create a new superuser: CREATE USER local_admin WITH SUPERUSER PASSWORD 'xxx';
  • Create a new database: CREATE DATABASE estate;
  • Grant all privileges on the db: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE estate TO local_admin;
  • Quit psql shell: \q
• You can generate a Signing key using secrets library

  import string
  import secrets
  
  def generate_signing_key(length=50):
      characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + string.punctuation
      return ''.join(secrets.choice(characters) for _ in range(length))
  
  SIGNING_KEY = generate_signing_key()
  print(SIGNING_KEY)

• URLS:
  • localhost:8000/api/v1/auth/users/ POST : to create user
  • localhost:8000/api/v1/auth/users/activation/ : to activate user; get uid/token from the link in the email
  • localhost:8000/api/v1/auth/jwt/create/ POST : for user login
  • localhost:8000/api/v1/auth/users/reset_password/ POST : for password reset
  • localhost:8000/api/v1/auth/users/reset_password_confirm/ POST : for setting new password