django_commands.md

Starting a django project from the command line

django-admin startproject <project name>

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Starting up the django server

From within the app root directory:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

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Running python migrations

python manage.py migrate <appname is optional>

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Creating an app

python manage.py startapp <appname>

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Making migrations

After a new model is created, we need to make migrations for our app.

python manage.py makemigrations <appname is optional>

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Opening a shell with django configuration

python manage.py shell

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Saving an in-memory instance of a model to a database

Within python shell <Model>.save

Example:

from <appname>.models import <Model>
c = Course()
c.title = "Python Basics"
c.save()

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Creating and saving a model in one go

Within python shell <Model>.create

Example:

Course.objects.create(title="Object-Oriented Python")

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Creating super users

python manage.py createsuperuser