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General

• Django is used to create static full stack server side website.
• Django rest framework is used to create apis
• Django makes use of the model, view, template design pattern.
• You can use shortcuts from django.shortcuts to cut down on code that gets repeated across multiple projects.
• You can use generic views to replace writing out views in full by hand.

Creating Django projects

1. Create the project directory

   mkdir tutorial
   cd tutorial
   

2. Create a virtual environment to isolate our package dependencies locally

   python3 -m venv env
   source env/bin/activate  # On Windows use `env\Scripts\activate`
   

3. Install Django and Django REST framework into the virtual environment

   pip install django
   pip install djangorestframework
   

4. Set up a new project with a single application

   django-admin startproject tutorial .  # Note the trailing '.' character
   cd tutorial
   django-admin startapp quickstart
   

Making model changes

1. Change your models (in models.py).
2. python manage.py makemigrations to create migrations for those changes
3. python manage.py migrate to apply those changes to the database.

Runserver

python manage.py runserver

Admin

• python manage.py createsuperuser to create admin account

• Add models to admin panel by using admin.site.register: ```py title=polls/admin.py from django.contrib import admin from .models import Choice, Question

admin.site.register(Question) admin.site.register(Choice) ```

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