Starting a Django project

Since we somewhat have the backend code ready to go, we choose a framework to start developing a web applicaiton. We chose Django, an open-source python web framework that helps developers build database-driven websites. 

 

First we need to install it.

This process is very easy. As long as we have python installed, we type this in the command line. 

$ pip install django

Ta-Da ~ Done. 

Now we need to start a project and start the app. 

To do this, we type these commands into the command line on the directory we want the project to be in. 

$ django-admin startproject example
$ cd exmaple 
$ django-admin startapp app

Now we have the following folders and files. 

$find command in terminal

We are now ready to start something with django, but there are more settings and setups that are required for to start which will be on the next post.