Shingirayi Mandebvu's Blog

So after a number of lines of code, brilliance and dreaming. Your next dream is for the world to see. Of course you can walk around with your computer and doing a 'manage.py runserver' But cumon guys, lets embrace the cloud. Not like this guy though! I choose to deploy on  PythonAnywhere . So you ask why? 1) Free amazing support - You actually talk to a live human ! 2) Easy - Very easy 3) Affordable - As you scale up, it gets way better! So by now I assume you are already on a version control system (So I will not waste much energy on that one). Maybe Ill someday write on my two favs  Github  and  Bitbucket . STEP 1: Create an account on pythonanywhere. Kindly note that your username will be included in your apps url. So it will be like : " yourUsername .pythonanywhere.com" STEP 2: Select other and set a bash console. STEP 3: Push your code from version control This will push from (in my example) github to your pythonanywhere. You

Requirements 1) Django (obviously) 2) Pyrebase (pip install pyrebase, you know the drill) So to give a better appreciation- I will first show you the HTML way then I'll proceed to show you how its done in Python. METHOD 1 : The HTML way Then you need to go to the firebase console. To setup a new project. After that you will see a web setup and you select that. Once selected you will see the config. It should be similar to this : Now that you have configured firebase, we now need to select the components which will be needed. depending on what you want for your app- you can now select the modules that you need. For us today, we will do the login authentication. Make sure you include firebase app first, so this is my screen: METHOD 2: Enter Python Open your dev environment and create a file named  pyrebase_settings within your django app folder. In it, you will have the following: Now, lets go to views.py!