Setup | Enlightening Notes

Notes from ‘Programming with Mosh’ & ‘Code Dojo’ youtube channel

Install Python 3.7 from https://www.python.org/
VS-Code Setup
- Install Python extention from Microsoft
- Install PyLint extention for Syntax highlighting
- Install Formatter - Pep8Style to format python code according to PEP8 standards
- Install ‘Code Runner’ extension

With VS Code we can setup to format the page while we save the file, with preference menu.

pip3 - package manager for python. Its already available with python installation.
- Pipenv is used to create virtual environment. Install pipenv via pip3
  pip3 install pipenv
Create a folder ‘test_django’ and run this command under the folder
pipenv install django==2.1
Pipfile and Pipfile.lock files will be created in that folder
Run - pipenv shell
Run this command to create the django project - django-admin startproject django-project1 .
Run python manage.py runserver to start the development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ You may see the common page in the url.
Run this command to create hello app - python manage.py startapp hello
Open ‘test_django’ folder in VS Code and edit settings.py file - add “hello” entry under “INSTALLED_APPS” array.

Add the below code to create a view in hello app and configure the url. Then access http://127.0.0.1:8000/sayHello and view the app.

/hello/views.py

  from django.http import HttpResponse
  def myView(request):
        return HttpResponse('Hello, World!')

/django_project1/urls.py

  from hello.views import myView

  urlpatterns = [
        path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
        path('sayHello/', myView),
  ]

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