My simple template for a Django + DRF, JWT, grappelli, Swagger/OpenAPI stack (development environment only)

Build / Run: sh build.sh

Build / Run without collecting static files: docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up

Useful links and commands:

Create superuser:

docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml exec backend python manage.py createsuperuser or docker exec -it backend /bin/bash + python manage.py createsuperuser

Grappeli admin page http://localhost:8000/en/backend/admin/

DRF auth page http://localhost:8000/en/api-auth/

Available API list http://localhost:8000/en/api-auth/login/en/api/v1/

Swagger url http://localhost:8000/api/swagger/

OpenAPI docs http://localhost:8000/api/redoc/

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Production version difference (possible next steps):

Django related:

• add logging
• move user type into JWT payload, blacklist used tokens
• split project into 2-3 versions: development and production (based on the env.backend.env -> PROJECT_ENV value) -- different settings, storage type, CI/CD flow, and so on
• add i18n translation (LocaleMiddleware + LOCALE_PATHS in settings)

Infrastructure related:

• add AWS RDS, S3 storage support for /media/ folder (local/aws -- based on the PROJECT_ENV value)
• RedisCache for caching, Celery for tasks, Sentry/Datadog for logs, Graphana for monitoring
• copy static to the nginx container instead of using volume
• update gunicorn and nginx config (increase the number of workers and max-requests for gunicorn, and well, set kind of entirely different config for nginx -- add https support and security headers, increase worker_processes, update max body/file size, timeouts, and so on)
• CI/CD : test, build, and deploy stages, product versioning, blue-green deployment. Keywords: Ansimble (playbooks), terraform, AWS (S3, ECR, VPC, EC2, KMS, IGW, RDS, MQ, LB)