Practicing building an E-commerce Platform API on Django REST Framework

Key Areas Explored:

Requests/Parsers

• Handling requests containing serialized data and media files e.g. using JSON/MultiPartParser.

Models/Admin/Serializers

• Implementing custom object managers, extending object-model methods.
• Registering/customizing models on the admin interface, automatically populating slug fields based on corresponding name fields.
• Serializing/Deserializing objects, handling many-to-many-field in creation and updates.

Caching/Sessions

• Implementing and handling per-view caching on object retrieval, updates, and deletion.
• Setting up appropriate session storage, CRUD operations on request session data (cart data and refresh tokens are currently stored in session).

Versioning

• Properly leveraging app names and namespaces for Namespace versioning.

Media Handling

• Configuration for media uploads in settings.
• Setting up cloudinary for image uploads and handling related operations e.g. image deletion from database.

Custom exception handling

• Understanding and extending rest_framework's exception handlers to customize error responses.

Testing

• Understanding and implementing tests using django/drf test suite to ensure endpoints work as intended.

Custom Middleware/Context processors

• Understanding and customizing django's middleware/context processors to handle manually blacklisted simple_JWT access tokens/set necessary environmental checks.

Token/Stateless Authentication

• Understanding the usage of Knox and simple_jwt for user authentication and customizing them as needed.

Real-time Messaging

• Understanding the use of django channels with websockets, and implementing a functional real-time chat between authenticated parties.
• Adding functionality for message replies, online/offline/typing status updates.

Setup containerization with docker