🍋 Little Lemon Backend Capstone Project

This is the final capstone project for the Meta Back-End Developer Certificate on Coursera. It demonstrates a role-based REST API for Little Lemon restaurant using Django, DRF, MySQL, and token authentication.

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📁 Project Structure Note To align with the capstone requirements:

The main Django "myproject" is named: littlelemon

The Django "myapp" used for models, views, and APIs is: restaurant

You may notice minor typos in internal folder names or comments (restraunt, etc.), but functionally and structurally everything matches the expected project setup.

🔧 Technologies Used

• Django 5
• Django REST Framework
• MySQL
• Djoser (for token-based authentication)
• Role-based access (Manager, Customer, Delivery Crew)
• Unit Testing

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Menu Item Management (/api/menu-items/)
• ✅ Table Booking System (/api/bookings/)
• ✅ Cart & Order Management
• ✅ User Registration & Authentication (via Djoser)
• ✅ Group-based Permissions
• ✅ Token-based Auth
• ✅ Fully testable with Insomnia/Postman

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⚙️ Getting Started

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/your-username/little-lemon-back-cap.git
cd little-lemon-back-cap

2. Set Up Python Environment

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate  # Windows: env\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set Up MySQL Database

• Create a MySQL user and database manually:

CREATE DATABASE littlelemon;
CREATE USER 'rahul'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON littlelemon.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost';

• Update settings.py with your MySQL credentials:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'littlelemon',
        'USER': 'yourname',
        'PASSWORD': 'yourpassword',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '3306',
    }
}

4. Run Migrations

python manage.py migrate

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📦 Optional: Load Sample Data

Use the provided sample_data.json file to preload menu items and bookings:

python manage.py loaddata sample_data.json

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🧪 Run Unit Tests

python manage.py test

All 4 tests should pass ✅

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🔑 Authentication

• Use Djoser’s token auth system.
• To test, create users and retrieve their token at /auth/token/login/.

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📬 API Overview

Endpoint	Access	Description
/api/menu-items/	Public (GET), Manager CRUD	Menu management
/api/bookings/	Authenticated	Booking system
/api/cart/	Customer only	Cart operations
/api/orders/	Customer/Manager	Orders
/auth/	Public	User/token auth

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🎓 Coursera Peer Review Checklist

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👨‍💻 Author

Rahul Kumar
Backend Developer | Meta Capstone Graduate