micro-ecommerce

Learn how to build a Micro eCommerce Web App with Python and Serverless Postgres

Prerequisites

• Python experience with 30 Days of Python or similiar
• Django experience with Try Django or similiar
• Basic understanding of HTML and CSS

Required Software

• Python 3.10 or newer
• Node.js 18.15 LTS or newer (For Tailwind.CSS)
• Git

Getting Started

mkdir -p ~/dev
cd ~/dev
git clone https://github.com/codingforentrepreneurs/micro-ecommerce
cd micro-ecommerce
git checkout start

To install packages and run various command shortcuts, we use rav. Open rav.yaml to see the various commands available if you prefer to not use rav.

macOS/Linux Users

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
venv/bin/python -m pip install pip pip-tools rav --upgrade
venv/bin/rav run installs
rav run freeze

Windows Users

c:\Python310\python.exe -m venv venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate
python -m pip install pip pip-tools rav --upgrade
rav run win_installs
rav run win_freeze

With all the configuration done, here are the main commands you'll run:

rav run server
rav run watch
rav run vendor_pull

• rav run server maps to python manage.py runserver in the src folder
• rav run watch triggers tailwind to watch the tailwind-input.css to output the output.css styles file.
• rav run vendor_pull