Getting started with Django Framework

Django is a python framework for developing web applications. To install Django, run

pip install django

To create a project, run

django-admin startproject PROJECT_NAME

Django come with built in development server. To start Django development server, change to the project folder and run

./manage.py runserver

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It will start a development web server on url http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Creating App

A django project consists of multiple apps. Apps do a specific task, can be considered as a module. To create an app, run

python manage.py startapp NAME_OF_APP

To activate the app, you need to edit file

vi PROJECT_NAME/settings.py

Find

INSTALLED_APPS

this list all installed apps, you need to add name of your app to end of the list.

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