Django-Cart

django-cart is a basic model for ecommerce websites implemented using django and postres.

Demo Website

View demo site at django-cart

user credentials
username: test
password: test@password

View admin site at admin

user credentials
username: admin
password: admin

Project Setup on localhost

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/arihant-001/django-cart.git

Install and activate virtual environment

# install virtualenv for easily setting up virtual environment
$ sudo pip3 install virtualenv

# create a new virtual environment with name venv
$ virtualenv -p python3 venv

# activate the venv environment
$ source venv/bin/activate

# If your shell changes like below, then you are ready
(venv) $ 

Install Requirements

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run the project

# inside the cloned directory
$ python3 manage.py runserver

Docker

Set the database config in django-cart/settings.py as:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'postgres',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'PASSWORD': 'postgres',
        'HOST': 'db',
        'PORT': 5432,
    }
}

Install docker and docker-compose

Build and run the container using docker-compose

# Build and start containers
$ doker-compose up --build

# create tables
$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py migrate

# create admin
$ docker-compose exec web python manage.py createsuperuser

Create dummy data

# open web container shell
$ docker exec -it django-cart_web_1 bash

# go to scripts
$ cd scripts

# download data
$ python bb_scrapper.py

# populate data in db
$ python populate_product.py

Heroku

Creating new app using heroku cli

# create an app on heroku with a unique_app_name
$ heroku create unique_app_name

# create tables in database 
$ heroku run python manage.py migrate

# create an admin
$ heroku run python manage.py createsuperuser

Setup production variables

create a secret key for production using a key generator

# set the above key in production
$ heroku config:set DJANGO_SECRET_KEY='!oxq(v+a2h-lk!%434t_$g)7li%%318gn6bw1$j1e%7j#h%ahv'

# disable debug 
$ heroku config:set DJANGO_DEBUG=False

Add host in settings

Open /django-cart/settings.py and change the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting to include your base app url

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['<your app URL without the https:// prefix>.herokuapp.com','localhost']                                                                                        

deploy the updated app

git add -A
git commit -m 'Update ALLOWED_HOSTS with site and development server URL'
git push heroku master