Overview

• This guide shows how to create a Django project using only a Command Line Interface. No IDE is used.
• Django is Python Web Framework. Though it can also be used to build an API

Prerequisites

• Operating System: Ubuntu 18
• Command Line Interface or Terminal
• Python 3.6 (or above) is installed
  • For Ubuntu users refer to this guide.
• Pip and Virtual Env has been installed
  • For Ubuntu users refer to this guide.

Steps

01. Navigate or create the project directory

$ cd ~

$ mkdir geek-django-app

$ cd geek-django-app

02. Create and activate a virtual environment

$ python3 -m venv venv

$ source venv/bin/activate

03. Install Django via Pip

(venv) $ pip install django

It will install Django and other required modules. You can view the other Pip modules it installed, using the `pip freeze` command, while the Virtual Environment is activated.

(venv) $ pip freeze

04. Create the project using Django. Note that the project name cannot contain dash. Underscore is valid.

(venv) $ django-admin startproject geek_django_main

05. The file structure will look like

geek_django_main/

├── geek_django_main

│   ├── __init__.py

│   ├── settings.py

│   ├── urls.py

│   └── wsgi.py

└── manage.py

06. Running the application. Note that the virtual environment should still be activated.

(venv) $ python geek_django_main/manage.py runserver

It will show the following that says that development server is running.

07. On your browser or use curl from a new command line interface session. Visit the following site.

http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Or via CURL on a new session

$ curl http://127.0.0.1:8000

08. On the command line session where Django is running, the access log is visible.