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Chapter: Days 45-48: Build a simple Django app
Lecture: Get Django up and running
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Time to install Django. First, let's make a virtual environment.
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Activate it and install Django. Let's start a project and here on the slide you see the syntax for that.
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After installing Django I have a Django admin utility. And Django you always start with a project which is kind of the global project
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with it's configuration and all the generic stuff. And inside that project you can make one or more apps. And in this case we're just going to do
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one app called quotes. So first make a project. And I'm using the . because I want to create the main app of the project called mysite
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in this current directory. And I've grown accustomed to this because not doing it like this gave me issues
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when I deployed previous Django apps to Heroku. This gave me the manage.py which we will use later to do the database migrations and run the server.
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My venv is my virtual environment and mysite is the main app or the project app which has it's settings for the configuration
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which we will see in the next video. And I want to have my quotes as a separate app. So I do start app quotes. And now I have also quotes folder
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which is the app inside the Django project. Django comes with batteries included so the authentication model is already there.
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And I can now run the migrate command on the manage.py to get all those models synced to the database. And where's the database?
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Well, out of the box Django comes with SQLite. Usually I use Postgres for my projects but getting Postgres ready is beyond the scope of this video.
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So for now to focus on Django we're going to use the standard file base SQLite database, which you see here.
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And now I can run the same manage.py command again with run server. And that starts the Django server on localhost
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and I can now navigate to this address and it should see a landing page confirming that Django is installed successfully. Awesome.
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In the next video we're going to look at settings of py to look at some common configuration settings you want to add to a starting Django project.