Corey Schaefer Django Video Series 01

Summary

Overview of the application that's being built
Installation of Django
Creation of new project, and overview of the folders and files created by Django
Running the default server

Building a blog style application
- Authentication System
- Multiple Users
- Profile including a profile picture
- Can update and delete owned posts
- Can view posts by others
- Source code available
Install Packages Needed
- Use a virtual environment
- Install django - Installed version 2.1
```
pip install django
```
- Use at least python 3.7
Create a new project
```
django-admin startproject django_project
```
- django_project folder now contains folder django_project (yup - 2 folders with the same name), and program manage.py - in sub folder django_project: - __init__.py empty file that tells python this is a python package - settings.py - - SECRET_KEY - Adds security to Django - DEBUG = True - INSTALLED_APPS - urls.py - - path admin already setup - wsgi.py - used to communicate with web server
See the default site
```
python manage.py runserver
# To run on a different port
python manage.py runserver 7000
```
- Warnings about migrations
- Site at localhost:8000 or 127.0.0.1:8000
- Can got to localhost:8000/admin for admin screen. No way to login yet.