How to Django — Setting up

Building your first Django website

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Prerequisites

Before you jump into building websites using Python and Django, make sure you have a grasp of Virtual Environments.

Process of building a Django Website:

1. Installing Django
2. Commands for setting up and running the website
3. Folder Structure
4. Creating a Django app
5. Hello World

1 — Installing Django

To get into building with Django, we first need to install this package.

• Open Command Prompt
• Navigate and activate your virtual environment
• Pip install Django

pip install Django

• Verify that Django can be seen by Python. To do this, run Python in your Command Prompt

python
>>> import django
>>> print(django.get_version())
2.1.2 <-- This is what I am using at the moment.

If you are having problems and cannot seem to get a version. Check the Django docs.

2 — Commands for setting up and running the…