Django Setup

Prerequsits

Have an active Virtual Environment Be located inside the directory for your project

Starting setup

install django

pip install django

Create the project

django-admin startproject <name of project>
 

Rearrange folders

If you are creating a single project in the directory, and the name of the project matches the name of your current directory; you may consider making navigation easier by deleting an empty directory. To do this move all the files in your new project folderr up one, then delete the empty directory. Commands as follows:

mv <project>/manage.py ./
mv <project>/<project>/* <project>
rm -r <project>/<project>

Local Host

Navigate to the folder were your python application "manage.py" is and utilize the command: python3 manage.py runserver <port> if you do not specify a port, django defaults to port 8000.
python3 manage.py runserver 8000
python3 manage.py runserver
both do the same thing.

Creating the application

• From the project folder run the command
• python3 manage.py startapp <app name>
• Use command 'p' + settings.py to navigate to the settings file
• Under Installed_apps add the name of your application
• update urls.py in project folder

from djang.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [ path('',include(<app name.urls>))]

• in the app views page

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def helloWorld(request):
    return HttpResponse('Hello World!')

• create urls.py in the application to store local urls

from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [ path('', views.helloWorld)]