kevinchou723/django-blog

The purpose of this project is to learn how to create a Django web app

The source of learning is from https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/

Commands To Start Django App

Create Virtual Environment

python -m venv myvenv

Start Virtual Environment, Run this before doing anything

source myvenv/bin/activate

Upgrade pip

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

Create requirements.txt (this is kinda like package.json) and install

touch requirements.txt && pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the project, this will create manage.py and etc.

django-admin startproject <project name> .

Migrate

python manage.py migrate

To Start Server

python manage.py runserver

Create the Application

python manage.py startapp <app name>

After creating your model

python manage.py makemigrations <app name>

Run the migration

python manage.py migrate <app name>

Create super user to login at /admin

python manage.py createsuperuser

Open Django shell

python manage.py shell