Getting started with Django Framework
Django is a python framework for developing web applications. To install Django, run
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pip install django |
To create a project, run
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django-admin startproject PROJECT_NAME |
Django come with built in development server. To start Django development server, change to the project folder and run
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./manage.py runserver |
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
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python manage.py startapp NAME_OF_APP |
To activate the app, you need to edit file
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vi PROJECT_NAME/settings.py |
Find
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INSTALLED_APPS |
this list all installed apps, you need to add name of your app to end of the list.