Videoflix/Predigtflix

A REST api written in Django

Technologies used

• Django: The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines (Django builds better web apps with less code).
• DRF: A powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs

Installation

• If you wish to run your own build, first ensure you have python globally installed in your computer. If not, you can get python here.

• Then, Git clone this repo to your PC

      $ git clone https://github.com/cvosoft/videoflix-backend.git

• Dependencies

  1. Cd into your the cloned repo as such:

         $ cd videoflix-backend

  2. Create and fire up your virtual environment:

         $ python -m venv venv
         $ source venv/bin/activate

  3. Install the dependencies needed to run the app:

         $ pip install -r requirements.txt

  4. Make those migrations work

         $ python manage.py makemigrations
         $ python manage.py migrate

• Run It

  Fire up the server using this one simple command:

      $ python manage.py runserver

  You can now access the file api service on your browser by using

      http://localhost:8000/api/
  

  For testing the background video processing, you have to run

      DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=videoflix.settings.dev celery -A videoflix worker -l info
  

Links

The Frontend was realized with Angular v19,
The Backend was realized with Django Rest Framework (DRF).

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