Link Generator - Backend

The backend of this application has been built using Django, DRF, MySQL.
You can find frontend for this application through this repository: Frontend
The project has been deployed on Vercel: Link

Installation Locally Steps

Pre-requisite of this project is to have Python3.10 and pip installed on your system.

git clone https://github.com/kar-cloud/link-generator.git

Generate a virtual enviroment

python -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

Install the requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create .env in the root folder of the project.
Add these configurations in .env file:

SECRET_KEY=
DATABASE_NAME=
DATABASE_USERNAME=
DATABASE_PASSWORD=
DATABASE_HOST=
DATABASE_PORT=
JWT_SECRET=

Dont put space anywhere= sign. For example, SECRET_KEY=abc_ee

If you have not created MYSQL database, create one using command in mysql shell: create database <database_name>
Run commands for migrations to apply:

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Finally run the server

python manage.py runserver