General-purpose, high-level programming language supporting multiple programming paradigms.
Django is an open source web application framework written in Python, it encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
It’s recommended to keep your project inside virtual environment. Let’s create a new virtual environment for your project.
At first open the Terminal (press Alt
+ F1
, type Terminal and click on the black squere icon or just press Enter
). Second, create a new folder my_project
open it.
$ mkdir my_project
$ cd my_project
Let’s create a virtual environment called project_venv
which will contain Python and pip which you can use to install Django.
$ pyvenv project_venv
If you want to work in the virtual environment, you have to activate it.
$ source project_venv/bin/activate
Running the virtual environment, you can install Django.
(project_venv) $ pip install django
That is all, you have sucessfully installed Django in the virtual environment! Now you can start working on your project.
This is a short tutorial, how to create your first Django project. You can find a detailed tutorial in Django Documentation.
Now it is a good time to activate your virtual environment (see above). Let’s initialize your project files structure. Replace mysite
with the name of your project.
(project_venv) $ django-admin startproject mysite
Enter your new directory which was automatically created.
(project_venv) $ cd mysite
And run the server.
(project_venv) $ python3 manage.py runserver
Now that the server’s running, visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/ with your Web browser. You will see a “Welcome to Django” page, in pleasant, light-blue pastel. It worked!
When you finish your work, just deactivate the virtual environment.
(project_venv) $ deactivate