In this chapter, we have prepared our development environment, created our first project, and learned how to launch the Django development server. We are now ready to start building our social bookmarking application!
Here is a quick summary of the Django features covered in this chapter:
Here is a quick summary of the Django features covered in this chapter:
Django can be downloaded from the official Django website at http://www.djangoproject.com/. Given that it is written in Python, the same package works on all major operating systems.
To start a new Django project, issue the following command:
$ django-admin.py startproject <project-name>
To create database tables, issue the following command:
$ python manage.py syncdb
To start the development server, issue the following command:
$ python manage.py runserver
Django project settings are stored in settings.py. This file is a regular Python source file that can be edited using any source code editor. To change a variable, simply assign the desired value to it.
The next chapter takes you through a tour of the main Django components and develops a working prototype for our bookmark sharing application. It's going to be a fun chapter with many new things to learn, so keep reading!