VScode tutorial

• Create a project folder and inside add a project environment for Django

  python -m venv env
  

• Install Django in the virtual environment

  python -m pip install django
  

• Create a Django Project

  django-admin startproject web_project .
  

To start the server:

python manage.py runserver 1080

• Create a Django app

  python manage.py startapp hello
  

The folder contains:

• views.py: contains the functions that define pages in your web app
• models.py: contains classes defining your data objects
• migrations folder: used by Django’s administrative utility to manage database versions
• apps.py: app configuration
• admin.py: for creating an administrative interface

• tests.py: for unit tests

• add views

  from django.http import HttpResponse
  def home(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, Django!")
  

• Create a file, hello/urls.py: specifies patterns to route different URLs to their appropriate views ```python from django.urls import path from hello import views

urlpatterns = [ path(“”, views.home, name=”home”), ]

map root URL of the app ("") to the view.home function that you just added to hello/views.py:

- The web_project folder also contains a urls.py file, which is where URL routing is actually handled
```python
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path("", include("hello.urls"))
]