Features & Learning checklist

• Learnt to build REST APIs with DRF
• Optimised CRUD operations with django ORM
• Paginated Request
• Advanced Search filtering
• Worked with list DS
• PostgreSQL database integration
• Learnt about serializers
• DRF querysets
• Custom JWT authetication
• User Recomendation & Notifications using celery/multi-threading

API ENDPOINTS:

1)

Signup	Signup user, Return JWT tokens
HTTP method	POST
Route	/api/v1/register

Example

Body:

{
    "username": "tom20",
    "email": "tom20@gmail.com@gmail.com",
    "password": "aksh1086"
}

Response:

{
   "refresh": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTY0NDAyNzU4OSwiaWF0IjoxNjQzOTQxMTg5LCJqdGkiOiI0MGM5OTBlZTAxODU0OWE1OTg1YmE2MTdjZTJlNjRlMCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOiIyYTBjNDdmMC00MDMzLTQzZTEtYWJjYS01YzE3NmQ5NGMyNDciLCJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRvbTIwIn0.EG3Ej7iulP0WYPdKHgeZ5qu0ssqqQZvvnsv0fTlOvCM",

   "access": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjQzOTYyNzg5LCJpYXQiOjE2NDM5NDExODksImp0aSI6IjA2YTEyYmQ0MGU1ODQyOTk4Njk3Y2QzMWIzMTkyYTllIiwidXNlcl9pZCI6IjJhMGM0N2YwLTQwMzMtNDNlMS1hYmNhLTVjMTc2ZDk0YzI0NyIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoidG9tMjAifQ._m_llB1rf1Nso6Rk5FWJA5ZxmPB68ui_PJucnnQh70E"
}

2)

Login	Login user, Return JWT tokens
HTTP method	POST
Route	/api/v1/login

Example

Body:

{
    "username": "tom20",
    "email": "tom20@gmail.com@gmail.com",
    "password": "aksh1086"
} 

Response:

{
   "refresh": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTY0NDAyNzU4OSwiaWF0IjoxNjQzOTQxMTg5LCJqdGkiOiI0MGM5OTBlZTAxODU0OWE1OTg1YmE2MTdjZTJlNjRlMCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOiIyYTBjNDdmMC00MDMzLTQzZTEtYWJjYS01YzE3NmQ5NGMyNDciLCJ1c2VybmFtZSI6InRvbTIwIn0.EG3Ej7iulP0WYPdKHgeZ5qu0ssqqQZvvnsv0fTlOvCM",
   "access": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjQzOTYyNzg5LCJpYXQiOjE2NDM5NDExODksImp0aSI6IjA2YTEyYmQ0MGU1ODQyOTk4Njk3Y2QzMWIzMTkyYTllIiwidXNlcl9pZCI6IjJhMGM0N2YwLTQwMzMtNDNlMS1hYmNhLTVjMTc2ZDk0YzI0NyIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoidG9tMjAifQ._m_llB1rf1Nso6Rk5FWJA5ZxmPB68ui_PJucnnQh70E"
}

3)

All users	Get all users. Paginated response.
HTTP method	GET
Route	/api/v1/users?page=2&pageSize=5
Optional Queries:
Page	Default = 1
PageSize	Default = 5

Example Response:

{
    "count": 21,
    "next": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/users/?page=2&pageSize=5",
    "previous": null,
    "results": [
        {
            "id": "b90c0eb0-8501-4e10-97cc-7bd343b0467f",
            "username": "akshay"
        },
        {
            "id": "6602956c-9382-4ebf-9ccf-abdf1421b626",
            "username": "tom1"
        },
        {
            "id": "f653f595-ec47-4ecf-8b04-467fb202722d",
            "username": "tom2"
        },
        {
            "id": "8e2095a4-6805-45e8-81da-de7132f7d3b0",
            "username": "tom3"
        },
        {
            "id": "40831cc2-703b-4a57-a04a-3950997b292c",
            "username": "tom4"
        }
    ]
}

4)

Single user details	Get single user detail.
HTTP method	GET
Route	/api/v1/users/tom4

Example Response:

{
    "username": "tom4",
    "id": "40831cc2-703b-4a57-a04a-3950997b292c",
    "isTutor": false,
    "profile_pic": "/images/avatar.svg",
    "skills": [],
    "interests": []
}

5)

update user skills	update user skills
HTTP method	PATCH
Route	/api/v1/users/tom4/update-skills
Optional Queries:
Username	tom4

Example

Body:

[
    "javascript",
    "python",
    "c++",
    "c",
    "c",
    "javascript"
]

Response:

{
    "username": "tom4",
    "id": "40831cc2-703b-4a57-a04a-3950997b292c",
    "isTutor": false,
    "profile_pic": "/images/avatar.svg",
    "skills": [
        "c",
        "c++",
        "javascript",
        "python"
    ],
    "interests": []
}

6)

update user interests	update user interests
HTTP method	PATCH
Route	/api/v1/users/tom4/update-interests
Optional Queries:
Username	tom4

Example

Body:

[
    "programming",
    "gaming"
]

Response:

{
    "username": "tom4",
    "id": "40831cc2-703b-4a57-a04a-3950997b292c",
    "isTutor": false,
    "profile_pic": "/images/avatar.svg",
    "skills": [
        "c",
        "c++",
        "javascript",
        "python"
    ],
    "interests": [
        "gaming",
        "programming"
    ]
}

Challenges vs How i solved them

Challenges	How i solved them
Moving from MVC to MVCS architecture	Went through few websites and stackoverFlow and found out why i should revamp (optimised, reactor pattern, every module does one function rule, reuseablity)
Mongoose partial text based search	used a solution which utilises regex to solve this problem
Making task scheduler async	Went through a lot of packages and articles to solve this. thought of using setInterval but it would be optimsed for production level code.
Global error handling	I used to handle errors in try catch in every function, then learnt about Global error handling
Global Async handler	I used to handle async functions, then learnt about Global Async handler