Django DRF Project: eCommerce RESTful API

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Resources (Code/Documentation)

Chapter 2: Quick-Start Windows 10/11 Installation & Setup Guide

Lecture 1: Installing Python 3.9.5

Lecture 2: Installation and User Guide for Visual Studio Code

Lecture 3: Creating Virtual Environments

Chapter 3: Quick-Start MacOS Installation & Setup Guide

Lecture 1: Installing Python 3.9.5

Lecture 2: Installation and User Guide for Visual Studio Code

Lecture 3: Creating Virtual Environments

Chapter 4: [Optional Warm-up Orientation Exercise] – New Django Developers

Lecture 1: Preparing a new Virtual Environment

Lecture 2: Introducing the Python Package Index

Lecture 3: Installing the Django Framework

Lecture 4: Creating a new Django project

Lecture 5: Creating a new Django application

Lecture 6: Registering a new Django application

Lecture 7: Starting the Django Development Server

Lecture 8: Understanding the Django Request-Response Cycle

Lecture 9: Creating a unique URL pattern

Lecture 10: Writing our first Django view

Lecture 11: Creating a new HTML template

Lecture 12: Relating an HTML template to a view

Lecture 13: Installing a Django application from a requirements.txt file

Chapter 5: Ecommerce Inventory Database Design

Lecture 1: Preliminary Table List

Lecture 2: Multivalued Fields

Lecture 3: Table and Field Naming Conventions

Lecture 4: Keys

Lecture 5: Field Specifications

Lecture 6: Table Relationships

Chapter 6: Project Initiation

Lecture 1: Build: Starting a New Django Project

Lecture 2: Build: Configuring Multiple Settings Files

Lecture 3: Build: Generating a Secret Key

Lecture 4: Build: PIP Freeze recording installed packages

Lecture 5: Build: Configuring Environment Variables

Lecture 6: Build: DRF First Steps

Lecture 7: Testing: Pytest First Steps

Lecture 8: Source Control: Creating a new GitHub Repository

Lecture 9: VSCode: Python VSCode Extensions

Lecture 10: Formatting: Black Configuration

Lecture 11: Linting: Flake8 Configuration

Chapter 7: Dev-v1.0.1: Product App – Product, Category and Brand

Lecture 1: Source Control: Creating a New GitHub Branch

Lecture 2: Build: Create and Register the Product App

Lecture 3: Build: Building the Category Product and Brand Table

Lecture 4: Build: Creating the Category Serializer

Lecture 5: Build: Define a Category Viewset

Lecture 6: Build: Implementing Django DRF Router

Lecture 7: Build: API Documentation with drf-spectacular Schema Generation and Swagger

Lecture 8: Build: Implementing Brand

Lecture 9: Build: Implementing Product

Lecture 10: Testing: Coverage HTML Reporting

Lecture 11: Introducing Unit and End-to-End Testing

Lecture 12: Introducing What to Test in Django

Lecture 13: Testing: Model Factories

Lecture 14: Testing: APIClient End-to-End Testing

Lecture 15: Source Control: Create a New Commit

Chapter 8: Dev-v1.0.2: Product App – Sub-Product Inventory

Lecture 1: Source Control: Merging a GitHub Branch

Lecture 2: Source Control: Creating a New GitHub Branch

Lecture 3: Build: Implementing the Product-Line Model

Lecture 4: Build: Product-Line Serializer

Lecture 5: 9.6. Analysis: User Stories

Lecture 6: Build: Category Filter with Extra Actions

Lecture 7: Build: Filter Return Single Product

Lecture 8: Build: Editing Multiple Models in the Django Admin Site

Lecture 9: Build: Handling Reverse Relationships in Serializers

Lecture 10: Build: Serializer Field Name Mapping and Flattening

Lecture 11: Performance: Multiple Queries, Towards Eliminating the N+1 Query Problem

Lecture 12: Build: Creating Custom Managers and QuerySet Methods

Lecture 13: Build: Custom Field Ordered List

Lecture 14: Testing: Pytest Adopts and Common Commands

Lecture 15: Testing: Model Clean Method

Lecture 16: Testing: APIClient End-to-End Testing

Chapter 9: Dev-v1.0.3: Product App – Sub-Product Media

Lecture 1: Source Control: Merging a GitHub Branch

Lecture 2: Source Control: Creating a New GitHub Branch

Lecture 3: Build: Implementing the Product Image Model

Lecture 4: Build: Admin Site Reverse Link Inline URLs

Lecture 5: Build: Product Image Serializer

Lecture 6: Performance: Multiple Queries, Towards Eliminating the N+1 Query Problem

Lecture 7: Testing: Product Image Factory

Lecture 8: Testing: Product Image Models

Chapter 10: Dev-v1.0.4: Product App – Product Attributes

Lecture 1: Source Control: Merging a GitHub Branch

Lecture 2: Source Control: Creating a New GitHub Branch

Lecture 3: Build: Implementing the Attribute Models

Lecture 4: Build: Admin Site Attribute Inline Reverse ManytoMany

Lecture 5: Build: Product Attribute Serializer

Lecture 6: Design: Product Types and Type Attributes

Lecture 7: Build: Implementing the Product Type Tables

Lecture 8: Build: Admin Site Product Type Inline

Lecture 9: Build: Customizing the Serialization Output

Lecture 10: Build: Product Attribute Validation

Lecture 11: Performance: Product Attribute Query

Lecture 12: Build: Custom Field with SerializerMethodField

Lecture 13: Testing: Handling Test Failures