README.md

Django exporting PDF

Simple example of Django application to export PDF using reportlab and weasyprint

Main Requirements

Python3 Django Django REST Framework Chart.js

How to use

Create a folder to store this project. Open this folder on terminal and run the following commands

1. Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/rodrigoddc/django_pdf.git

2. Create a virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv

3. Activate the the virtual environment previously created

on linux: source ./venv/bin/activate on windows: ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat

4. Installing libs

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Creating database

python manage.py makemigrations

6. Migrating database models

python manage.py migrate

7. Running

python manage.py runserver

After that, you'll be able to access the project at 127.0.0.1:8000 or localhost:8000/ on your browser.

This application is just a case study, so SECRET_KEY, DEBUG and DATABASES are present as plain text

Never do this in production!