First Django App

Following here at djanoproject.com

Install

In anaconda

conda install -c anaconda django

test: run this in an interactive shell and see if you get an error or not

import django

First app

django-admin startproject mysite

structure:

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
        __init__.py
        settings.py
        urls.py
        asgi.py
        wsgi.py

python manage.py runserver

By default this uses port 8000, but we can

python manage.py runserver 8080
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080

Creating the app

python manage.py startapp polls

then in polls/views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
  return HttpResponse("Hello World")

and in pools/urls.py

from django.urls import path

from . import views

urlpatterns - [
  path('', views.index, name="index")
]

then in mysite/urls.py (this is the master urls.py for the whole project, whereas polls is an app that lives within the project.

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

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

you should always use include() to include other URL patterns, the exception being admin.site.urls

path()

path(route, view, kwargs, name)
# route -- url pattern
# view -- function to delegate to
# additional kwargs -- for the view function
# name -- give the route a name