IMAGE API with Django, DJANGO_REST_FRAMEWORK, Cloudinary and Tailwind CSS

technologies: django, django rest framework , Cloudinary and Tailwind

Project setup

• Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

• Activate the environment 🕹

  • windows

  .\venv\scripts\activate
  • MacOs or Linux

  source venv/bin/activate

• install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

• set values in .env

DJANGO_DEBUG=True
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY="django-secret-key"
CLOUDINARY_API_KEY="api-key"
CLOUDINARY_NAME="cloudinary-name"
CLOUDINARY_SECRET_KEY="cloudinary-secret-key"

• working dir

cd src/

• Generate DJANGO_SECRET_KEY

python -c 'from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())'

• Migrate

python manage.py migrate

• Run the server

python manage.py runserver