Django code workflow

Describes the basics steps required to get a django-app up and running.

Make sure django is installed

pip install django
pip install psycopg2

Create a django project

django-admin startproject project

The functionality of web-app can be divided into smaller apps.

cd project
python manage.py startapp app

The project the structure

project/
|-- app
|   |-- admin.py
|   |-- apps.py
|   |-- __init__.py
|   |-- migrations
|   |   `-- __init__.py
|   |-- models.py
|   |-- tests.py
|   `-- views.py
|-- db.sqlite3
|-- manage.py
`-- project
    |-- __init__.py
    |-- settings.py
    |-- urls.py
    |-- wsgi.py

Include the create app in the main settings

vi project/app.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'app.apps.CatalogConfig',
]

Database setup for postgres

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'db_name',                      
        'USER': 'db_user',
        'PASSWORD': 'db_user_password',
        'HOST': '',
        'PORT': 'db_port_number',
    }
}

Run migrations and start the development server

python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Create a simple view

Create route for app

Include the route

Visit the page we created.