Django with GraphQL Server

Features

• Django: Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of Web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. It’s free and open source.

• Django Rest Framework Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs. http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

• Graphql: GraphQL is a query language for your API, and a server-side runtime for executing queries by using a type system you define for your data. GraphQL isn't tied to any specific database or storage engine and is instead backed by your existing code and data.

• Graphene: A Django integration for Graphene. https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene-django

• Django corsheaders Django app for handling the server headers required for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) https://github.com/ottoyiu/django-cors-headers

Requirements

You need to install Python and add to your Path

Getting started

# 1. Clone the project
git clone [email protected]:inspired-solutions/django-graphql-starter.git

# 2. Navigate to the new project
cd django-graphql-starter

# 3. Activate virtualenv
virtualenv venv -p /path/to/python3
. venv/bin/activate # linux
. venv/Scripts/activate # windows

# 4. Install modules
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# 5. Apply Migrations
./manage.py migrate

# 6. Start server (runs on http://localhost:8000)
./manage.py runserver

Documentation

Commands

• pip install -r requirements Install all modules described in requirements.txt
• python manage.py migrate Apply migrations to database
• python manage.py runserver Start server

Project structure

File name	Description
├── .gitignore	Lists the files and directories that Git should ignore
├── core	Contains all files that are related to the core app
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── admin.py	Contains django’s admin interface of core
│   ├── apps.py	Application configuration of core
│   ├── migrations	Contains all migrations of core app
│   │   └── __init__.py
│   ├── models.py	Contains models of core app
│   ├── schema.py	Connect models from Django ORM to graphene object types
│   ├── schemas	Contains all graphene object types
│   │   ├── auth.py	Auth graphene object types
│   │   ├── group.py	Group graphene object types
│   │   ├── permission.py	Permission graphene object types
│   │   └── user.py	User graphene object types
│   ├── tests.py	Contains tests of core app
│   └── views.py	Contains views of core app
├── djangographql	Contains all files that are related to the Django Application
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── local_settings.example.py	Contains a example of local settings
│   ├── local_settings.prod.py	Contains production settings
│   ├── middleware.py	Contains middlewares
│   ├── schema.py	Connect models from Django ORM to graphene object types
│   ├── settings.py	Contains django default settings
│   ├── urls.py	Contains urls
│   ├── utils.py	Contains utils files
│   └── wsgi.py	Contains Web Server Gateway Interface configuration
├── manage.py
├── requirements.txt	A list of Python packages required
└── tox.ini	Virtualenv configuration file

Deployment

cp djangographql/local_settings.prod.py djangographql/local_settings.py

nano djangographql/local_settings.py  # update settings

./manage.py migrate

./manage.py collectstatic

Contributing

The django-graphql-starter are maintained by the Inspired Solutions.

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