Creating App
Till now we have created the Django project and now we will create an app. Django is famous for its unique and fully managed app structure. For every functionality, an app can be created like a completely independent module. To create an app we need to go to the directory containing manage.py and run the following command –
python manage.py startapp appname
Now let’s create an app called post, so the command to create the app would be –
python manage.py startapp post
Now our directory looks like this –
To consider the project i our project we need to specify the project name in the INSTALLED_APPS list in settings.py –
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INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'post.apps.PostConfig', # our app name] |
Getting started with Django
Python Django is a web framework that is used to create web applications very efficiently and quickly. Django is called a battery included framework because it contains a lot of in-built features such as Django Admin Interface, default database – SQLite3, etc. Django provides various ready-made components such as a way to handle user authentication, a management panel for your website, forms, a way to upload files, etc.
In this article, we will learn Django by creating a basic blogging web application.