Django REST framework service backend template

Why?

Standard Django comes with a lot of batteries, but even with them it's up to you to implement such basic features like:

• Auth workflow, Login/Registration
• Custom user model
• CORS + JWT

This features implemented in this template:

Features:

• Custom user model
• JWT auth via simple-JWT
• Local settings
• CORS
• Login and registration views
• Change password view

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Planned:

• Reset password view
• User notification mechanism
• Docker
• CI-CD
• Swagger (?)
• Sentry (?)

Pre-requisites:

Required

• Django
• Django REST Framework

Optional

• JWT
• CORS

Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
cd ./src/core
echo local_settings.template.py > local_settings.py
python src/manage.py test

Usage

Codestyle:

Style

• Django codestyle.
• Use docstrings.

Code organisation

• KISS + DRY.
• Use Django best practices.
• Make fat models. Don't write business-logic in views.
• Use PEP-484 type-hints when possible.
• Use GenericRelations
• Use Manager
• Don't use signals for business logic.
• Use django translation.
• Put business logic in service.py files