Django Learn Series | Creating a Django App

Django Learn Series | Creating a Django App

Django RaviTeja   11:38:00 PM

1. cd Desktop/DjangoPractice/firstdjango
2. python manage.py startapp firstapp
3. Files inside firstapp folder are below
1. models.py -- DB interaction
2. admin.py -- admin interface
3. views.py -- App's logic and URL request / response
4. tests.py -- Automated tests 
5. migrations folder -- auto generated. Migration files about DB tables changes for the app

Django Learn Series | Creating a Django project

Django Learn Series | Creating a Django project

Django RaviTeja   11:28:00 PM

1. source djangoTestEnv/bin/activate
2. Create a folder like DjangoPractice on Desktop
3. cd Desktop/DjangoPractice
4. django-admin startproject firstdjango
• Auto creates  a folder named firstdjango and required files in it
• Subfolder named firstdjango inside firstdjango will have 
• init.py
• settings.py
• Configures Django
• urls.py
• Routes requests based on URL
• wsgi.py
• provides a hook for webservers
• WSGI is the Web Server Gateway Interface. It is a specification that describes how a web server communicates with web applications, and how web applications can be chained together to process one request.
• WSGI is a Python standard described in detail in PEP 3333.
• main folder firstdjango will have manage.py
• manage.py runs commands related to firstdjango
5. cd firstdjango
6. python manage.py
• To check list of available command
7. python manage.py runserver
• To start the webserver

Django Learn Series | Installation

Django Learn Series | Installation

Django RaviTeja   10:42:00 PM

On Ubuntu Machine, use below steps.

1. sudo -H pip install virtualenv
• Using pip and installing virtualenv (recommended) instead of global installation
2. virtualenv -p python djangoTestEnv
• djangoTestEnv is sample name of virtual environment
3. source djangoTestEnv/bin/activate
• Activating djangoTestEnv
4. pip install django
• Installing django in djangoTestEnv
5. pip freeze
• This is to check installed packages in that  djangoTestEnv
6. django-admin --version
• This is to check the version of django installed in djangoTestEnv