Django on Vercel

This is a simple project developed using Django framework and it contains the settings required for successfull deployment of Django projects on Vercel.

Setup

Below are the steps to follow to setup this project locally on your machine;

• Clone the project locally on your machine using git clone
• Create and activate a new virtual enviroment.
• To install dependencies run

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Go to the projects setting.py file and remove the comments in the database section.

• In your terminal execute the following commands to makemigrations and migrate to database

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Using PostgreSQL Database

Comment the database section out completely and paste the follwing lines of code beneath it.

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': "django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2"
        'HOST': os.environ['HOST'],
        'NAME': os.environ['NAME'],
        'USER': os.environ['USER'],
        'PASSWORD': os.environ['PASSWORD'],
        'PORT': os.environ['PORT'],

    }
}