Backend API for AORTA.

We are hosting a server on Heroku. For developers, you'll want to set up a local development server.

First ensure you have Python 3 installed (we have tested with Python 3.7.5).

To set up this backend locally, clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/cigmah/aorticroot.git

Next, you will need to set an environment variable, SECRET_KEY. Please refer to the official Django documentation.

If you are running the server locally, an SQLite database is probably sufficient for testing. Create a .env file in the root directory with the following contents:

DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///db.sqlite3

This will save the database to a file named db.sqlite3 in the root directory.

It's highly recommended you use a virtual environment to run the backend. Read more on virtual environments at the official Python documentation.

After activating your virtual environment, install the requirements from requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, run your first migrations to initialise the database.

python manage.py migrate

Next, create an administrator account for use with the administrator interface.

python manage.py createsuperuser

Finally, run the tests to make sure things are going smoothly.

python manage.py test

If all tests pass, you should be good to go. Start the development server with:

python manage.py runserver

Note that you may encounter a 500 Internal Server error when Debug = False, in which case try running:

python manage.py collectstatic

Still to be planned.