Django Project Skeleton

Minimal Django project scaffold created by the assistant.

Quick start (PowerShell):

1. Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   python -m venv venv .\venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run migrations and start dev server:

   python manage.py migrate python manage.py runserver

Notes:

• Update SECRET_KEY in mysite/settings.py for production.
• This scaffold uses SQLite by default.

Smoke-check (without installing):

• Ensure these files exist:

  • manage.py
  • mysite/__init__.py, mysite/settings.py, mysite/urls.py, mysite/wsgi.py, mysite/asgi.py
  • requirements.txt, README.md, .gitignore

• You can run python manage.py --help after activating a virtualenv with Django installed to see available commands.

Optional helper:

• Run .\run-dev.ps1 to create a venv, install deps and start the dev server (PowerShell).

Environment & admin

• A .env file is included with development defaults (SECRET_KEY, DEBUG, ALLOWED_HOSTS).

• To create a superuser non-interactively (script uses environment variables):

  $env:DJANGO_SUPERUSER_USERNAME='admin'; $env:DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL='admin@example.com'; $env:DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD='adminpass'; .\venv\Scripts\python.exe create_superuser.py

Run without Activate.ps1

If your PowerShell blocks scripts, you can run the venv python directly:

.\venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install -r requirements.txt
.\venv\Scripts\python.exe manage.py migrate
.\venv\Scripts\python.exe manage.py runserver