Blog_application_django

A Blog application developed using Django framework 3.1. See live at: https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/

Features:

• User Authentication - Users can register, login and logout
• Create, Edit and Delete Posts
• Users can Like and Comment on posts.
• Connections - Follow/Unfollow other users.

Steps to be followed for first time use

• Set these Environment variables along with AWS Credentials

DEBUG_VALUE = True
DJANGO_ENV = DEV
SECRET_KEY_BLOG = <Your Secret Key>

• Run these commands - This will create your application tables (by the Model definition) in the Database.

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

• Create an admin user by running these following commands

python manage.py createsuperuser

• Run Tests to ensure everything is set up and working correctly.

python manage.py test

Blog Application API Endpoints

• GET https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/users - Returns the list of all users registered.

Blogposts API Endpoints

• GET https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/posts - Returns the list of all posts by all users.
• POST https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/posts - Creates a new post.

  Data required = {"title": "Title", "description": "Description", "author": "Author ID"}

• GET https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/posts/<id> - Returns a post by it's post ID.
• PUT https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/posts/<id> - Updates a post by it's post ID.
• DELETE https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/viewset/posts/<id> - Deletes a post by it's post ID.
• GET https://blog-app-pydj.herokuapp.com/api/v1/posts/?username=<username> - Returns a list of all posts by a specific user by his username.

API Documentation - https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/18647792/UVJhDuVC

This will be updated regularly....