REST API prototype created using Django, Neo4j, Neomodel and Django REST Framework (DRF).

Clone the repository

git clone https://git.embl.de/yelmoubayed/new-dp-service.git    
cd <repository>

Create a virtual environment to isolate the package dependencies locally

python3 -m venv env 

source env/bin/activate #On Linux and MacOS  

env\Scripts\activate #On Windows    

Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Add new requirements if needed

pip freeze > requirements.txt

Django's most important command lines

This command is used to create a project

django-admin startproject <project name>
django-admin.py startproject <project name>

This command is used to create an application inside a project

python manage.py <app name>

This command applies migrations

python manage.py migrate

This command creates new migrations based on the changes you have made to your models

python manage.py makemigrations

This command opens a python shell to test query sets

python manage.py shell

This command runs an emulated server on your local machine

python manage.py runserver <optional port number>

This command creates a super user to access the admin panel

python manage.py createsuperuser

This command creates a cache table

python manage.py createcachetable

This command applies neomodel constraints

python manage.py install_labels 

Links to official documentations

• Django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/
• Neomodel: https://neomodel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Neo4j: https://neo4j.com/docs/
• DRF: https://www.django-rest-framework.org/