Django-Serverless Template

Designed for rapid development of serverless APIs.

Pre-requisites

• Docker
• Python 3.7
• serverless-cli
• An AWS profile with valid credentials on your local machine

Usage

• Get setup: make init

• Run local API (binds to localhost:5000): make start

• Reset local database (completely): make reset

• Dump local database (data not structure): make flush

• Dump production database (data not structure): make flush-live

• Generate new migrations after changing a model: make migrations

• Running migrations locally: make migrate

• Running migrations in production: make migrate-live

• Deploy to lambda in dev: make deploy-dev

• Deploy to lambda in prod: make deploy-prod

Quickstart: creating an API

1. Create a new folder in functions with the name of your endpoint.
2. Add the new endpoint and HTTP method to serverless.yaml.
3. Update ./sls_django/settings.py with the name of your new endpoint.
4. Write your business logic to a file in the ./logic directory.
5. If creating a new model, duplicate one of the existing folders in sls_django, and rename with the name of your Entity.
6. Add Models or Serializers accordingly.
7. If you made changes to a model, run make migrations followed by make migrate. Then, you're ready to run your endpoint locally. Restart your local server, running make start.
8. Enjoy your endpoint, and proceed to develop subsequent APIs faster than ever.

Running endpoint code directly

Run python -m functions.functionName.handler

Testing (WIP)

Write your tests in the ./tests folder. Then:

1. Create a virtual environment in ./tests: virtualenv -p python3 venv
2. Source it: source venv/bin/activate
3. Install requirements: pip install -U requirements.txt

Finally, to run tests: python -m pytest tests from the root directory.