Build Ecommerce REST API with Django REST Framework & Python

Install the essential tools for this course: Visual Studio Code, Postgres for database, Postman for API testing, and optional git bash, with platform-specific download guidance for Mac and Windows.

Access the official git repo for the e-shop course on GitHub, with 11 section branches to fetch source code, including upload image, authentication, reviews, and stripe integration; bookmark the repo.

Set up a dedicated virtual environment, install Django, create a new e-shop Django project, and review the folder structure including manage.py, __init__.py, settings.py, and urls.py.

Install and configure Django rest framework, add it to installed apps, set up django dot env for secret key and debug in settings.py, then run the server.

connect your django app to postgres by installing psycopg2, setting environment variables for LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS on mac, and configuring django settings to connect via pgadmin on localhost:5432.

Create a Django product app and define its product model with fields for name, description, price, brand, category, ratings, stock, and a user foreign key, plus migrations and admin configuration.

Register the product app in settings, run makemigrations and migrate, create a super user, and manage the first product in the Django admin panel, displaying it by name.

Master an endpoint that retrieves all products from the database using Django rest framework. Create a product serializer and wire up URLs for API access.

Create an endpoint to fetch a single product's details by its id with a Django REST Framework API view, using get_object_or_404 and a serializer, and expose it at /api/products/{id}.

Implement search filters and pagination for the ecommerce API using Django-filter, adding a ProductFilter with category and brand fields, wiring it into views and serializer queries, then test with Postman.

Add product search with a keyword field and a character filter on the product name; extend to min and max price using gt and LTE.

Learn to implement custom 404 and 500 error handlers in a Django project, returning JSON responses with clear messages, and test them by disabling debug and configuring allowed hosts.

Implement a custom exception handler in Django REST Framework to format errors with a structured payload (status code, message, details) and wire it into settings to override default error handling.

Create an AWS S3 bucket for image storage, set a bucket policy, and create an IAM user with S3 full access, generating access keys for Django integration.

Install and configure Django storages to use AWS S3 for media files, set API keys and bucket region in env files, and prepare image upload to S3.

Create a product images model linked to products, upload multiple images to an AWS S3 bucket via a Django REST Framework endpoint, and serialize the results for database storage.

Add a read-only images field with many=true to the product serializer to display images within each product in the Django REST Framework API, using Postman to verify.

Create a new product through a Django REST Framework endpoint, saving data via the request, serializer, and product model to the database.

Add validation and error handling to the new product endpoint by using extra keyword arguments in the serializer to enforce required fields and report errors with serializer.is_valid.

Update product details via a put endpoint in Django REST framework, validating by id and updating name, description, price, category, brand, ratings, and stock, returning the updated product at /products/{id}/update.

Learn how to automatically delete product images from an S3 bucket using Django signals and a post_delete receiver when removing a product.

implement authentication with the simple jwt package in django rest framework, configuring access and refresh tokens, token lifetimes, blacklist after rotation, and bearer token authentication for protected endpoints.

Create sign up and user serializers in the account app, defining first name, last name, email, and password with validations and a minimum length of six.

Register users by posting to a Django REST framework endpoint, validate input with a signup serializer, check for emails, hash the password with make_password, and return success or error responses.

Authenticate users with simple jwt by posting username and password to the /api/token endpoint to obtain access and refresh tokens for protected routes.

Create a protected endpoint to fetch the details of the currently logged-in user using is_authenticated and request.user, returning serialized user data.

Learn how to save the current user in a product during creation by protecting routes with is_authenticated and request.user, and enforce a 403 check for unauthorized updates.

Create a protected endpoint to update user profiles with Django REST Framework, updating first name, last name, username, email, and optionally the password.

Create a review model and serializer in the ecommerce Django app, linking reviews to products and users with rating and comment fields, and generate migrations.

Develop and expose a Django REST Framework endpoint to create or update product reviews, enforce rating 1–5, authenticate users, and recalculate the product's average rating.

Learn to display all product reviews in the API response by adding a serializer method field, implementing get_reviews to fetch product.reviews.all and serialize them with a review serializer.

Create a delete review endpoint for a product, removing the user's review and handling not found errors. After deletion, recalculate and save the product's average rating, guarding against null values.

Configure Django to send password reset emails using Mailtrap, wiring SMTP settings through environment variables and choosing the SMTP backend or console backend for testing.

Implement a forgot password endpoint in Django REST framework, generate a 40-char token with a 30-minute expiry, save it to the user profile, and email a reset link.

Build a reset password endpoint with a token, validate and hash the new password (and confirm it), update the user profile, and enforce token expiry handling.