Python/Django admin dashboard + Google Calendar API

Technical Stack

- Python/Django: python 3.6, Django 1.11

- Database: PostgreSQL

Preinstall

  $ export LANGUAGE="en_US.UTF-8"
  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dev
  $ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev
  $ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall

Python3.6 env

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6
$ apt-get update

$ apt-get install python3.6

$ apt-get install python3-pip

Create server

```
$ python3.6 -m venv env3

or

$ python3.6 -m venv env3 --without-pip

$ source env3/bin/activate

$ pip install django==1.11 psycopg2

$ pip freeze > requirements.txt

$ django-admin startproject google_calendar_events_manager .
```

Get static files

```
$ python manage.py collectstatic
```

Migrate models into database

```
$ python manage.py makemigrations
```

Create admin user on server

```
$ python manage.py migrate

$ python manage.py createsuperuser
```

Run server

```
$ python manage.py runserver

or

$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 ```

Server urls

• admin page: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

In the case you run server with 0.0.0.0:8000 option

• https://192.168.1.120:8000/admin

Troubleshooting

• Remove migration files After faking the migrations for all apps we need to delete the migrations files inside migrations folder in each app.

  You can use the previous bash script to automate this process in Unix bases OSs.

   $ find . -path "*/migrations/*.py" -not -name "__init__.py" -delete
   $ find . -path "*/migrations/*.pyc"  -delete
  

  This will delete Python source files and also compiled Python files for migrations except for the special Python file init.py

• Make migrations again Now you need to re-create the initial database migrations with the usual commands

   $ python manage.py makemigrations
  

Deployinig

• Global server: Heroku
• URL: https://gceventmanager.herokuapp.com/admin
• Admin user name: admin
• Admin password: 123qweasd