twitter-clone-api

How to run API locally

Start up virtual machine

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

Install Dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run API server

python3 manage.py runserver

Deploying API on Server

Build the image with a tag

docker build -t backend:latest .

Run the docker image exposing port 8000

docker run -d -p 8000:8000 backend:latest

Running Unit Tests with Django Testing

The --keepdb will re-use the previous database built and --parallel will run all tests in parallel
of each other. v 2 displays more detail for the test cases.

python3 manage.py test --keepdb --parallel v 2

Navigate to this link to see all our Twitter posts as JSON data.
Navigate to this link to see all our Twitter users as JSON data.