README.md

Django Rest Framework - Bookstore Management

This Django Rest Framework project is a bookstore management system, allowing administrators to perform various tasks such as adding genres, managing authors and books, and efficiently exporting book data.

Features

1. Common Login and Signup:

   • Unified login for Authors and administrators.
   • Author signup functionality.

2. Admin APIs:

   • Add genre for books.
   • Retrieve all details of all authors, including their books.
   • Fetch details of a specific author.
   • Retrieve books of a specific author.
   • Delete genre from the system.

3. Author APIs:

   • Add a new book to the system.
   • Edit details of an existing book.

4. Export API for Admin:

   • Efficiently export all book data for a specific genre in structured formats like CSV or JSON.
   • Includes details such as Book name, Author name, Number of pages, and other relevant information.

Getting Started

Follow these instructions to set up the project locally:

Prerequisites

• Python 3.x
• Django
• Django Rest Framework

Installation

1. Clone the Repository:

git clone https://github.com/Piyushi692/library_project.git

2. Create a Virtual Environment
3. cd library_project python -m venv venv

4.Activate the virtual environment .\venv\Scripts\activate

5. Install Dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt

6.Apply Migrations python manage.py migrate

7.Run the Development Server python manage.py runserver