Django quick start app

Getting started with Django - Basic application

• Download and install Python, if not installed.
• Install django python package

pip install Django

• Create application

django-admin startproject mysite

• Migrate the pre-installed apps to use them with your project

python manage.py migrate

• Create admin user

python manage.py createsuperuser

• Run the application. If port is not specified, default is 8000

python manage.py runserver 8080

• Access the admin application in browser http://127.0.0.1:8080/admin/
• Access the basic application in browser http://127.0.0.1:8080/polls/

Some commands used during this app development

• Create new app polls inside base app

python manage.py startapp polls

• Generate the model SQLs before migrate

python manage.py sqlmigrate polls 0001

• Migrate the change to use

python manage.py migrate

• After changing models(in models.py) migrate those changes

python manage.py makemigrations

• Apply model changes to the database

python manage.py migrate

• Test the polls app

python manage.py test polls