Django: How to start a project

Step 1:

Ensure that python has been installed on your computer.

Step 2:

Once you have successfully installed python on your computer, you need to create a virtual environment.

Step 3:

Next, we will create our first Django project and run it and connect it to our local development server.

Step 3.1:

Make sure that you activate your virtual environment as follows:

Step 3.2:

Next, we need to install Django via the pip command:

Step 3.3:

Next, we need to start a new Django project. You can give it any name that you want. In this case, I'm calling it - "myproject1".

Step 3.4:

Now you need to cd into your Django project.

Step 3.5:

We want to now test our development server, so we must type in the following command:

python manage.py runserver

Step 3.6:

We can navigate to the URL below to see if our server is online.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/