Application setup

We create and start Django as usual:

django-admin startproject server_movierecsys

and from the server_movierecsys folder we start the application:

python manage.py startapp books_recsys_app

Now the settings.py needs to be configured. As we see in Chapter 6, Basics of Django: a simple web framework we set the installed apps, HTML templates, a layout formatting folder, and an SQLite database:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'rest_framework',
    'rest_framework_swagger',
    'books_recsys_app',
)

TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
)
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"), )
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}

Apart from the standard apps...