Backend

The backend of the project uses headless Wagtail, which is built on top of the Python framework Django. I use Docker Compose for developing locally, and it handles the necessary dependencies (so you don’t have to install Python, Django, or Wagtail). I also use Sphinx for generating the docs for both the backend and frontend (the actual docs are stored in the backend repo, as I wanted to take advantage of some Sphinx features for auto-generating documentation from Python docstrings).

You can view the backend repo on GitHub, and you can visit the Getting Started page to get a copy of the code running locally on your machine.

Contents:

• Getting Started - Backend
  • Environment Variables
  • Make
  • Docker
  • Project Structure
  • Loading in Sample Data
  • Interacting with the Frontend
• Developing - Backend
  • Creating a New Django app
  • Linting
  • Formatting
  • Testing
  • Documenting
  • Changelog
  • git-flow
• CI/CD
• Deploying
  • Manually Deploying
• Backups
  • Manual Backups
  • Automatic Backups
  • Old Way: Using dumpdata and loaddata
• Changelog
  • 0.13.0
  • 0.12.1
  • 0.12.0
  • 0.11.1
  • 0.11.0
  • 0.10.2
  • 0.10.1
  • 0.10.0
  • 0.9.0
  • 0.8.1
  • 0.8.0
  • 0.7.2
  • 0.7.1
  • 0.7.0
  • 0.6.0
  • 0.5.1
  • 0.5.0
  • 0.4.2
  • 0.4.1
  • 0.4.0
  • 0.3.0
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.1
  • 0.1.0
• Reference
  • Core
  • Geography
  • Images
  • Pages
  • Specimens
  • Taxonomy