Thread by @razacodes

Last thread🧵 we created a django project

And went over the basic structure of a website and the files

In this thread we will create a django app

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What we covered so far 👇

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Terminal

Navigate to our folder: Cd project

Create a project folder: Mkdir my project

Create virtual environment: Python -m venv ./myvenv

Install django - pip install Django

Create django project - Django-admin startproject myfirstproject

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Navigate in the terminal to the folder of our django project which we created last time and run the virtual environment

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Type the following command to create an app

If you get confused, remember: create the app in the same folder where the ‘manage.py’ file is

Python https://t.co/k0cX6DJlc7 startapp razahome

#Django

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This creates the following structure in our django project

1. Admin.py is a settings file for the built- django admin app
2. apps.py is a settings file for the app itself

continued 👇

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3. Migrations - this folder keeps track of any Changes to our models.py, which is our datamodel and database

4. Models.py is where we define our database models which Django translates in database tables

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5. Test.py is for the app specific tests

6. Views.py is where we take the request/response for our web app and reply with the content of the page

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Django is structured in the following way

A user types a link in the browser
The url tells django the location of the django app
the view file tells django what the content of the page is

The model gives the data
and the template gives the structure and style of the page

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Simplified:
User -> URL - > View -> Model(usually if data is involved) -> Template

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This structure can also guide us how to build the app and how write our code

First we need to link the app to the project.

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Go to the project folder and open the settings.py file

Every time we create an app, we need to include it in the https://t.co/7VnJZDvcP1 file to make sure Django knows this app exists

There is a standard convention for this

appname.apps.AppnameConfig

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So in our case ‘razahome.apps.RazahomeConfig’,

Now that our app is registraties we can build our django app or web page

In the next thread we will configure the urls.py file and views.py to create the location and content of our django app