DynoBIO - Dynamic Profile Biography API

A simple RESTful API built with Django and Django REST Framework (DRF). It serves as a centralized management system to maintain and serve dynamic profile and biographical data, allowing for dynamic updates to portfolio data, career history, and technical skills.

Key Features

• Custom Admin Interface: Tailored Django Admin for easy content management.
• Dynamic Skill Tracking: Manage proficiency percentages with inline editing.
• Focus Highlight: Maintain a list of current focus areas in real-time.
• Clean API Design: Uses ModelViewSets for standard CRUD operations across all resources.
• Serialized JSON Output: Ready for integration with modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, or Next.js.

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Tech Stack

• Backend: Django
• API: Django REST Framework
• Database: Currently MariaDB (Production)

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API Endpoints

/api/profile/ Basic bio, title, and location information. |
/api/expertise/ Broad categories of professional mastery.
/api/projects/ Descriptions of past work.
/api/skills/ Technical skills with percentage-based values. For Spider Diagram.
/api/focus/ Current priorities or project status (toggleable).
/api/career/ Professional timeline and role history.

Administration

/admin Data admin ui.

Example - Using API in static profile page

By fetching the data from the API in a static html page, using JavaScript, the page can be updated dynamically from the Admin panel of this service.
An example...

Installation & Setup (Docker)

1. Build Image in Docker

docker build -t bio-api:latest .

There is an example stack for use with Traefik as reverse proxy, but that can be simmplified to.

version: '3.8'

services:
  web:
    image: bio-api:latest
    container_name: bio_api_prod
    restart: always
    # Maps host port 8000 to container port 8000 - can be changed on LHS
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    environment:
      - DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key
      - DJANGO_DEBUG=False
      - DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=*
      - DB_NAME=your_db
      - DB_USER=your_user
      - DB_PASSWORD=your_password
      - DB_HOST=your_db_host_ip
      - DB_PORT=3306
      - PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
Key Changes Explained

Installation & Setup (Development)

1. Clone and Environment

git clone https://github.com/your-username/dynobio-backend.git
cd dynobio-backend

2. Create Venv

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install Requirements

python -m venv venv
pip install django djangorestframework django-cors-headers

4. Database Initialisation

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

5. Administrative Setup

python manage.py createsuperuser

6. Launch

python manage.py runserver

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.