First steps in Django

This project was created for educational purposes while I was teaching at Plovdiv University, its main goal is to introduce students to Python and Django.

How to create new project

1. Create new folder
2. Check if python is installed

   python --version
   

3. Create virtual environment

   python -m venv venv
   

4. Launch the virtual environment(venv)

   For windows:
   	.\venv\Scripts\activate
   For MacOs:
   	source venv/bin/activate
   

5. Install the needed libraries

   pip install django djangorestframework
   

6. Create project

   django-admin startproject webapp .
   

7. Create app

   django-admin startapp api
   

8. Open your VSCode and navigate to webapp_settings.py and in INSTALLED_APPS add the following:

   'rest_framework',
   'rest_framework.authtoken'
   'api', 
   

9. Navigate to webapp_urls.py and add the following

   #path('', include('api.urls')),
   

10. Create urls.py in api folder

If you managed to follow all the steps, now you just have to 'makemigrations' and 'migrate'

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

Use 'python manage.py makemigrations' when u have added a library or created/made changes to a model in the db! Then use python manage.py migrate to apply the changes!

11. Create super user with the following command

    python manage.py createsuperuser
    

12. Start the server

    python manage.py runserver
    

Finally login in to the admin panel - http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/