app-generator / how-to-integrate-django-with-mongo

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Integrate Django with MongoDB

Code sample on how to integrate Django and MongoDB. Open source Django dashboard generated by AppSeed as the user interface of the web application.

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Requirements

To use the following code, you need to have the following tools installed on your computer.

• Python3
• MongoDB server

Links

• Python
• MongoDB
• Django Soft Dashboard

Features

• Simple, intuitive codebase - built for beginners (can be extended with ease)
• Design: Django Soft Dashboard - Free Version
• Sections covered by the design:
  • Admin section (reserved for superusers)
  • Authentication: Django.contrib.AUTH, Registration
  • All Pages available in for ordinary users
• Persistence: MongoDB

How to use the code

Start MongoDB service

For Unix, MacOS

$ sudo service mongod start

For Windows:

Mongod starts automatically when MongoDB is installed as a service. If not check here

Clone the sources

$ git clone https://github.com/app-generator/how-to-integrate-django-with-mongo.git
$ cd how-to-integrate-django-with-mongo

Create a virtual environment

For Unix, MacOS:

$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

For Windows:

$ virtualenv venv
$ .\venv\Scripts\activate.bat

Install dependencies using pip

(venv)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the API server

(venv)$ python manage.py migrate
(venv)$ python manage.py createsuperuser # create the admin
(venv)$ python manage.py runserver

At this point, the app runs at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

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