drf-celery-redis-libraryapi

A Django REST Framework-based Library API with Celery for background task processing and Redis for caching and task queueing. Supports full CRUD, filtering, periodic tasks, and optimized caching.

Features

• CRUD operations for Book and Author models
• Filtering of books by author name via query parameters
• Background Task: Archives books older than 10 years every 30 minutes using Celery
• Caching: Book list response cached in Redis
• Optimized with select_related for database performance

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Installed Packages

Package	Purpose
djangorestframework	For building RESTful APIs
django-filter	For filtering support in DRF views
celery	Background task processing
redis	Message broker for Celery & caching backend
django-celery-beat	Periodic task scheduling

Install all with:

pip install djangorestframework django-filter celery redis django-celery-beat

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

To Run this project:

Install Docker Desktop:

• Download and install Docker Desktop

• Follow the installation steps and start Docker after installation.

• Run Redis in Docker

• Once Docker is running, open a terminal

• Terminal 1:

docker run --name redis -p 6379:6379 -d redis

• Terminal 2:

celery -A your_project_app_name worker --loglevel=debug

• Terminal 3:

celery -A your_project_app_name beat --loglevel=debug

• Terminal 4:

python manage.py runserver