Steps to start and manage a Django Project

django-steps.md

Setup the Virtual Environment

For Windows users, use the following steps (you are free to use Conda environments if you want to) :

pip install virtualenv
cd my-django-project
virtualenv venv
venv\Scripts\activate.bat
pip install django

For others, follow the following steps:

pip3 install virtualenv
cd my-django-project
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install django

Create and Manage

• Create a new project : django-admin startproject sample
• Create a new app : python manage.py startapp app
• Add the app name to settings.py under INSTALLED_APPS
• Create a urls.py file inside app
• Link the urls.py file of the project to the urls.py file of the app
• Create the templates, static folders
• Add the TEMPLATES_DIR, STATICFILES_DIRS = [STATIC_DIR,] in settings.py file
• Create the base.html, and remember to {% load static %} in every html to make use of the templating engine
• Create the models using classes, remember to put in __str__
• In the admin page, add these models
• Migration time
• Create views inside views.py, use templating to create dynamic webpages
• Map URLs to each view you've created
• Populate the database with faker
• Migration time DONE!