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Let’s get started with building a Django project that manages products and customer orders.
We’ll start by creating a Django project called store_manager, then add two apps — one for managing inventory and another for handling orders.
Step 1: Create Your Project Folder and Environment
To get started, I used Visual Studio Code as my IDE and followed these steps to structure my Django project cleanly with two separate apps: inventory and orders.
- You can create your project folder using either the terminal or the VS Code file explorer.
While at the terminal run and it will take you to the folder
or use the file explorer if you prefer and click on a open folder and right-click in the explorer sidebar and select "New Folder".
Name the folder store_manager.
Open that folder in VS Code
Once inside your project folder, open the terminal in VS Code by going to Terminal → New Terminal.
Step 2: Set up a virtual environment
run the following in your project root directory in the terminal
python -m venv venv
Step 3: Activate the virtual environment
while at windows powershell use
../venv/Scripts/Activate
Step 4: Install Django
Now install Django in your virtual environment:
pip install django
Step 5:Create the Django Project and Apps after successful installation of django in the virtual enviroment
We now initialize our Django project and create two apps inside it:
Create the Django project
django-admin startproject store_manager
Create two apps: inventory and orders
python manage.py startapp inventory
python manage.py startapp orders
Now our folder structure looks like this
Register the two apps in settings
Open
store_manager/settings.py
and add both apps to the INSTALLED_APPS list:
Step 6 Set Up Templates for Each App
Inside each app, I created its own templates folder:
For the inventory app:
mkdir -p inventory/templates/inventory
For the orders app:
mkdir -p orders/templates/orders
Step 7 Create App URL Configurations
Each app gets its own urls.py file.
inventory/urls.py
orders/urls.py
Step 8 Link App URLs in the Main Project
That is at
store_manager/urls.py:
Add static files in each app directory
Do so for orders app too
Then add media files upload to the project root directory
Step 9 Add basic views in inventory and orders app
inventory view.py
orders view.py
Step 10 Run Migrations and Start Server
Still at the terminals run the following to test
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver
Just to conclude my django setup for the store_manager app ran successfully.
Conclusion
This is just but the beginning of my 20days of django keep tune by diving with me into day two of my journey at
https://dev.to/silasochieng and follow in my github account at https://github.com/Silas-ochieng
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