Unlock the Power of Django: A Concise Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up and Creating Your First Project on macOS

Check if Python is installed :

python3

If not installed, please install:

brew install python3

If you don’t have brew installed, you can install using the command below and re-run the command above to install python3

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

After that, create a virtual environment in your preferred directory, cd to your preferred directory, and run the command below:

python3 -m venv testenv

the ‘testenv’ is the virtual environment name, you can give it your preferred name

Once your new environment has been created, cd into it

Once, you are inside your new environment directory, activate the new virtual environment and install Django:

to activate run:

source bin/activate

Once you active the virtual environment, the command prompt will have a prefix with your virtual environment name, then run the command below to install Django

pip install django

Once, you install Django in your virtual environment, you can create your Django project

django-admin startproject newproject

You should also, remember to deactivate your virtual env, once done by running the command below in the same virtual env

deactivate 

Thank you!!