Artifacts Back-end

Utilize Django's REST framework to create a database or artifacts. This repo is for the back-end and speaks with the front-end that was designed for this.

Checkout the README for instructions on getting set up with the deployed front-end.

Set-up

1. Fork and clone this repository.
2. Change into this directory
3. Create and checkout a new branch.
4. Run pipenv shell to start up your virtual environment.
5. Run pipenv install to install dependencies.
6. Create a database for this api to interact with. (if you're not using artifacts)

• Type psql to get into interactive shell
• Run CREATE DATABASE "your_database_name";
• Exit shell

1. Run python manage.py makemigrations when changing or adding models
2. Run python manage.py migrate to incorporate those changes
3. Run atom . to open the repo

This is set to run with the artifacts database.

Routes

Authentication:

Action	Method	Path
Sign-Up	POST	/sign-up/
Sign-In	POST	/sign-in/
Change-Password	PATCH	/change-password/
Sign-Out	DELETE	/delete/

Artifacts: (Authorized)

Routes	Method	Path
Create	POST	/items
Index	GET	/items
Show	GET	/items/<int:pk>/
Update	PATCH	/items/<int:pk>/
Delete	DELETE	/items/<int:pk>/

Planning Story

I began with the user routes. Using a Django-template made that part easy. Next came the model for artifacts. I decided to use choice fields and a boolean field for some properties of the model. In our class, we hadn't gone into depth about those so I wanted to give it a shot. The choice field took a long time to figure out how to use correctly, but I was proud of the result. Curl-scripts were part of the testing process. Once I had CREATE completed, the rest was simple.

Problem Solving Strategy

I was able to read the errors and fix most of the bugs. I also utilized my cohort by asking them questions when I couldn't solve an issue.

Technologies Used

• Python
• Django
• Pipenv
• Postgresql
• Heroku

Unsolved Problems/Planned Updates

• This build is bug-free! (As far as I can tell)
• Planning to add new models based on the item model when user selects what category to create
• Planning to add option for images for the artifacts

Entity Relationship Diagram