This document outlines the steps to create a basic Django project and application. It describes creating a Django project called HelloWorld using django-admin startproject. It then creates an app called HelloWorldApp using django-admin startapp. It configures the project's settings.py to include the new app and edits urls.py to map URLs to views. Finally, it adds a view that returns "Hello world" and runs the development server.
This document outlines the steps to create a basic Django project and application. It describes creating a Django project called HelloWorld using django-admin startproject. It then creates an app called HelloWorldApp using django-admin startapp. It configures the project's settings.py to include the new app and edits urls.py to map URLs to views. Finally, it adds a view that returns "Hello world" and runs the development server.
This document outlines the steps to create a basic Django project and application. It describes creating a Django project called HelloWorld using django-admin startproject. It then creates an app called HelloWorldApp using django-admin startapp. It configures the project's settings.py to include the new app and edits urls.py to map URLs to views. Finally, it adds a view that returns "Hello world" and runs the development server.
This document outlines the steps to create a basic Django project and application. It describes creating a Django project called HelloWorld using django-admin startproject. It then creates an app called HelloWorldApp using django-admin startapp. It configures the project's settings.py to include the new app and edits urls.py to map URLs to views. Finally, it adds a view that returns "Hello world" and runs the development server.
Note that we have manage.py file and HelloWorld folder inside
HelloWorld project.
1. __init__.py: An empty file that tells Python that this directory should be considered a Python package. 2. settings.py: Settings/configuration for this Django project. Django settings will tell us all about how settings work. In other words, this file will hold all apps, database settings information. 3. urls.py: The url declarations for this Django project; a "table of contents" of our Django-powered site. This is a file to hold the urls of our website such as "http://localhost/HelloWorldApp". In order to use /HelloWorldApp in our HelloWorld project we have to mention this in urls.py. 4. wsgi.py: An entry-point for WSGI-compatible web servers to serve our project. This file handles our requests/responses to/from django development server.
$ python3 manage.py runserver
Validating models...
0 errors found Django version 1.6.5, using settings 'HelloWorld.settings' Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Creating Hello World App
To create an app (inside HelloWorld project directory), we need to run the following command:
$ django-admin startapp HelloWorldApp
$ ls HelloWorld HelloWorldApp manage.py As we can see from the layout in picture above, the django-admin startapp app created files:
1. __init__.py - this file indicates our app as python package.
2. models.py - file to hold our database informations. 3. views.py - our functions to hold requests and logics. 4. tests.py - for testing.
Edit settings.py We need to edit settings.py under HelloWorld project directory to add our application HelloWorldApp as shown below:
Edit urls.py How does Django know what view to send a particular request? Django uses a mapping file called urls.py which maps html addresses to views, using regular expressions. In other words, Django has a way to map a requested url to a view which is needed for a response via regular expressions.
Let's modify the urls.py which is under the project directory, HelloWorld:
Edit urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include urlpatterns = [ path('admin/', admin.site.urls), path('', include('myprojectApp.url')), ]
create new url.py file under HelloWorldApp and add the following code from .views import Home from django.contrib import admin from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [ path('Home', Home), ]
Finally add in views.py
from django.shortcuts import render from django.http import HttpResponse # Create your views here. def Home(request): return HttpResponse("Hello world")
