Content:

 Github (folder)
 Virtual environment
 Django setup
Source:
 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeSa1SxNqdJZg91-jpaOps1OqABjvYu7S
 https://djangobook.com/installing-django/
 …
Style:
 XXX : Folder name
 XXX : Terminal command
 “XXX” : Folder with description in quotes
 XXX : In the scrip

Windows:
pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
mkvirtualenv myproject
workon myproject

Install : Django, Jupyter

Windows:
Install virtualenv – pip
1. Open command prompt in a folder to create V.Env – virtualenv <__>
2. Cd <___> /Scripts/
3. Activate to get into the env
4. Pip install Django
5. Go to app name – python manage.py runserver
6.

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 Github (folder):
 Create a seperate github folder in home where all the project files and their virtual
environments can be stored.
 This can be later used to sync with github, the website, to upload all the work
 ...
Virtual environment:
 Used to create internal silos where necessary versions of libraries can be used and
maintained isolated from the global versions on a system.
 Dependencies can be different and avoids confusion with the global versions
 To create virtual environment:
 pip install virtualenv
 Open github in terminal -> virtualenv -p python3 “name of the project”
 Check for the file within ls “name of the project”/lib/
 To activate this environment, go to the “name of the project” source bin/activate
 Change can be seen on the left side within brackets
 Here jupyter notebook can be run as usual
 Libraies can be loaded using the normal pip
 ...
Django setup:
Django project is an encapsulation of different applications. Like authentication, search,
forum etc.

 Once in the “name of the project” django-admin.py startproject “name of the project
application” to initiate the project
 “name of the project application” will have some python scripts
 Open up the “name of the project application” in a text editor
 “manage.py” : is used to interface with the command line with the application (after
launching the server, in cloud mostly)
 “Settings.py”: key file to defines global variables to make decisions like templates, static
files, file paths
 “url.py” : Defines what urls can be accessed on our website and what code runs when
accessed
 Local server: Go to “name of the project application” python3 manage.py runserver
 Get the url (http://127.0.0.1:8000/) and run it
 Output : It worked! Congratulations on your first Django-powered page.
 Right now one terminal will keep up the server. So open another one, go to the “name of the
project”, activate the environment and make changes in that. The changes made will
automatically be reflected in the server without refreshing.
 Open the virtual environment in the second terminal, go to the folder consisting
“manage.py” python3 manage.py startapp “name of the app”
 This new “name of the app” will contain few python scripts
 Usually Django has in-built application which can be seen under “INSTALLED_APPS”
section of “Settings.py”
 This has to be updated once a new application has been created to notify Django of its
existence by just adding “ name of the app” to the list.
 After updating, database (SQLite) by python3 manage.py migrate
 ...
 Functionality:
 Basic is to open a website homepage (‘/’) using a specific url

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  To edit, open “URL.py” and add: url(r”^$”,”classname”.as_view())
 r is for regex, ^ is for start point, $ is for the end point <- this opens up 8000/
 The text after "," is the view and that does the functionality part using functions and
classes and can be edited by “views.py” under migrations
 https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/class-based-views/
 from django.views.generic import View
class “classname” (View): # this will send html files which will be the homepage
def get (self, request): # request has info about ip add, cookies, data too
return render(request, "html document") # html is a template so render is used, and t
he page has to be created to be returned
 In “url.py”
# the classes from views.py are to be imported
from forum_app.views import “Classname”
# even better get all
from forum_app.views import *
 Creation of the HTML file has to done in the “name of the app”/”template”/
 Refresh the site to see the difference

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