Simple Clinic App Backend

This is a practice Django project using PostgreSQL and pgAdmin.

Features

• Django REST framework
• PostgreSQL
• pgAdmin
• Docker

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/markclarde/simple-clinic-app-backend.git
cd simple-clinic-app-backend

2. Set Up Environment Variables

• Create a .env file based on the example:

cp .env.example .env

3. Build and start Docker containers

docker compose up --build

4. Activate Python environment

python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install dependencies

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Run Django migrations

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

• This will create all tables in your Postgres database.
• You can verify in pgAdmin at http://localhost:5050/.

7. Create superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

• You can refer to the credentials in your .env file if you want to use predefined values.

8. Start Django server

python manage.py runserver

• Accessible at http://127.0.0.1:8000/.