Django Boilerplate

A starter repo for a backend webservice with the following features:

• Basic Authentication for users
• Token authentication
• APIs for /signup and /login

Setup

Run git clone

Run pip install -r requirements.txt

Run ./manage.py migrate

Run ./manage.py runserver

Once running the server you can use Postman (https://www.postman.com/) to explore the API URLs prefixed with http://localhost:8000/api

Current API

/login/

Verifies a username password match and returns a unique token specific to that user

/signup/

Creates a user with username and password and returns a unique token specific to that user

Deployment

You can easily deploy this on either Heroku or Render with the following config

• The start command is gunicorn backend.wsgi
• The build command is pip install -r requirements.txt
• PRODUCTION environment variable should be True
• EXTERNAL_HOSTNAME should be whatever the URL is the provider gives you e.g. something.onrender.com