Django mastery

Setup steps for pipenv etc

pip install pipenv
pipenv install django
pipenv shell

Then running django

django-admin create project-name

Manage.py

Manage.py is a wrapper around django-admin that takes the project settings

Settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
#admin interface
    "django.contrib.admin",
# authentication
    "django.contrib.auth",
    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
    # one time notifications
    "django.contrib.messages",
    # images etc
    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
    # add all your own apps here as well
    "playground",  # created with python manage.py startapp playground
]

Views in Django (request handler in Django)

setting up django debug

Run the debug version with port 9000

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