Create a Django app in less than 2 minutes

Django is a Popular Web framework in the pythonic world since its inception in 2005 as there's consistent growth of developers and users alike ever since.

If you love Python in the Backend, creating a Django app is more fun than you thought.

Virtual environment (venv)

Virtual environment makes sure the packages and dependencies you install do not end up globally in the site-packges folder of your Python installation directory and in the current project folder.

The following command will create a virtual environment in the current working directory

py -m venv venv

You can activate your virtual environment using the command (in windows)

.\venv\Scripts\activate

Once you have your virtual environment activated, we are ready to go.

Installing Django

Django package can be installed with following command

py -m pip install Django

After the installation is completed, we can start a new Django project

django-admin startproject demo .

Notice the presence of '.' a dot at the end of the command. Omitting this dot will result in a nested project structure same as our app name 'demo1'(in this case)

Starting the Dev Server

Now that we have our demo project created, let's check if our django app is installed properly

py manage.py runserver

You will notice certain warnings about migrations which you can ignore for now

That's it. We now have our first Django app up and running