Django

Create a new project

• First create a main dir django etc..
• cd into directory

django-admin startproject projectname

• this will create the projectname within the main directory

• cd into directory

python manage.py runserver

• To specify a different port

python manage.py runserver 8080

Create a Django App

python manage.py startapp myapp

• this will create an new app in the projectname folder

• cd into my app folder and create a folder called templates
• create an html file in the templates folder
• Link the new template folder to the project
• edit the settings.py file

import os

• Scroll down to "TEMPLATES", edit section DIRS

'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "myapp/templates")]

• Edit the views.py in your myapp folder

def myview(request):
   return render(request, "index.html")

• create a route file called urls.py

from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
   path('myview/', views.myview)
]

• There is also a urls.py in the folder with settings

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

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