Creating an Instagram Service in Django

This tutorial will cover everything from A to Z of building the backend of an Instagram-like service. We will start with setting up the environment using Vagrant, Python, Postgres, and Django while I help explain best practices for rapidly prototyping an API centric application. From there we will install the required Django plugins (such as Django Rest Framework), build the views and serializes, and handle user authentication. The next component will be dealing with image uploading, applying filters, and saving the data to a CDN capable location (S3). We’ll wrap up the project by creating all the other API endpoints such as getting profile info, liking, commenting, and following. I hope this tutorial series gives you a great idea of the many complexities that exist when building applications.

Django boilerplate can be found here: https://github.com/tsavecodes/djawesome

Tutorial overview

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What are the requirements?

Python + Django
Databases driven websites (we’ll be using Postgres)
Linux (we’ll be hosting on Ubuntu)
I’ll be developing on a Mac, but since we are using Vagrant any OS should do

What is the target audience?

Learners who want to understand Django’s structure for big applications
Learners who want to enhance their knowledge of API best practices
Learners who don’t know how to get started building an application