Setup dev environment

prerequisites

• Python
• pip

install pipenv

• pipenv is the new officially recommended packaging tool for Python
• pipenv uses files Pipfile and Pipfile.lock for managing the application dependencies.
• it works similar to bundler, composer, npm, cargo, yarn, etc.
• install pipenv with below command

pip install --user pipenv

pipenv install - python

• create a directory with name "django_tutorial" with command mkdir django_tutorial
• change directory to cd django_tutorial
• install the latest or required python version with below command

pipenv install --python 3.10

• above command will creates two files

  1. Pipfile - Pipfiles contain information for the dependencies of the project
  2. Pipfile.lock - declares all dependencies (and sub-dependencies) of the project
  3. .venv/ - virtualenv for the project

activate pipenv

• activate the virtualenv with command pipenv shell

install django package

• To install django just run command pipenv install django
• Specify the django version if required
• After the command execution, it updates the Pipfile with django package dependency.

create django project

• Run the command django-admin startproject my_project
• It creates the django project and the current directory looks like below.

.
├── Pipfile
├── Pipfile.lock
└── my_project
    ├── manage.py
    └── my_project
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── asgi.py
        ├── settings.py
        ├── urls.py
        └── wsgi.py

run development server

• Change directory with command cd my_project
• run the development server with command python manage.py runserver
• Open the web browser i.e chrome and access page http://127.0.0.1:8000/ to see the below screen.