Creating Your First Django Web Project App

In this repo, you will learn how to create your first project in Django

Tools:

VS Code

Pre-Requisite:

Python3
Pip 

Verify it is installed or not, run below commands on cmd

python --version
pip --version

If not installed, then Download and install:

Python3 from  https://www.python.org/downloads/
Pip from https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/

Get Started With Django first project

mkdir "Django Project"
cd "Django Project"

Open vs code and type above commands on terminal

Setup virtual environment:

python -m venv venv
virtualenv venv
venv\Scripts\Activate

Note: Do Only if you face issue in creating virtualenv, run powershell as a admin

Run following command

get-ExecutionPolicy 		

if it give "restricted"

Run the following command

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope LocalMachine

Type 'Y' to enable After enabling, run the following command get-ExecutionPolicy Now, it should give "remotesigned"

Now run the following command again

venv\Scripts\Activate (now you can see (venv)) in your terminal

Installing Django

pip install django

Creating Project

djagno-admin startproject myproject

Change Directory to your project

cd myproject

Contents of myproject directory

Run Django server

python manage.py runserver [port]

Note: here port is optional, by default port is 8000

Run:

start localhost:8000/
start 127.0.0.1:8000/

e.g:

python manage.py runserver 9000		

Now it will run our django server with 9000

Run:

start localhost:9000/
start 127.0.0.1:9000/

By defaul Django project admin panel, we can check it using

start localhost:8000/admin/

Create App in django-project

django-admin startapp myapp

Now, Add 'myapp' in INSTALLED_APPS list of setting file of your project 'myapp'.

Create urls.py file in myapp directory and write this code

from django.urls import path
from . import views

# URL endpoints for app
urlpatterns = [
	
]

Goto urls.py file of myproject directory, first import include from 'django.urls

from django.urls import path, include

In urlpatterns of urls.py of myproject, type

path('myapp/',include('myapp.urls')),

Now goto urls.py of myapp, and write url pattern

path('',views.index)

urls.py should look like:

from django.urls import path
from . import views

# URL endpoints for app
urlpatterns = [
	path('',views.index)
]

Goto views.py and write function

from django.shortcuts import render, HttpResponse

# Create your views here.
def index(request):
	return HttpResponse("Hello World")

Now goto, myproject directory and run the django server

python manage.py runserver

Open browser and type:

open localhost:8000/myapp/ or 127.0.0.1:8000/myapp/

Now, page will show "Hello World"

Congratulation:

You have done it. You have successfully created your first app in django.

Copyright: Ahsan Riaz

Repo: https://github.com/AhsanRiaz9/Createing-Your-First-Django-Project