1 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:01,700 Hey, welcome back. 2 00:00:01,700 --> 00:00:08,870 In this video, we will set up our Django project, but before that, you need to create a new PyCharm 3 00:00:08,870 --> 00:00:09,740 project. 4 00:00:09,770 --> 00:00:10,940 I've done that already. 5 00:00:10,940 --> 00:00:13,460 So that's my pie chart project. 6 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:20,120 I don't have any files for now except of the Venv directory which was created by PyCharm. 7 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:29,120 So let's set up a Django project now with Flask, you don't really need to set up a flask project, 8 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,570 but with Django, things work a bit differently. 9 00:00:32,570 --> 00:00:41,120 So with Flask, what we do is we create a new python file and start coding in that file. 10 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:43,130 With Django. 11 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,840 You don't create those files yourself. 12 00:00:45,860 --> 00:00:47,570 Django will create it for you. 13 00:00:47,570 --> 00:00:49,730 But first of all, we need to install Django. 14 00:00:49,730 --> 00:00:51,230 So that's the very first step. 15 00:00:51,230 --> 00:00:53,000 So please go to the terminal. 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:00,500 So my venv is activated so I can just run PIP, install django and press enter. 17 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:11,250 Writes, My Django was installed successfully so I can close the terminal and now we want to set up 18 00:01:11,250 --> 00:01:12,570 the Django project. 19 00:01:12,570 --> 00:01:17,100 So we have the PyCharm directory here, we have Django installed. 20 00:01:17,130 --> 00:01:20,970 Let's set up the project to set up the project again. 21 00:01:20,970 --> 00:01:34,440 You want to go to the terminal and type in Django minus admin start project my site dot. 22 00:01:34,650 --> 00:01:37,310 And what is this command? 23 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:39,270 Well, Django admin. 24 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:43,260 Django minus admin is one of the Django commands. 25 00:01:43,260 --> 00:01:51,000 So your operating system should recognize this now because when we install Django, this was added to 26 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,700 the path of our operating system. 27 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:57,840 So you can access this command from your operating system terminal. 28 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,750 And then this is part of this command. 29 00:02:00,750 --> 00:02:03,870 So we want to set up a project, right? 30 00:02:03,870 --> 00:02:08,639 So these are the commands and this is a name you want to give to your project. 31 00:02:08,639 --> 00:02:11,400 So I do recommend to just write my site. 32 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:18,660 And then the dot means that my site, this directory will be created in the current directory, which 33 00:02:18,660 --> 00:02:22,080 is app 17 Django form in my case. 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,840 So the root directory of our project. 35 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:30,000 So my site will be created when I run this command. 36 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,080 Let's see. 37 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:36,720 So I just ran it and perhaps you need some seconds for this to refresh the directory. 38 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:41,280 Or you can go and reload from disk to refresh it. 39 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,360 So there we go. 40 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:49,800 That's my site directory and this directory has a few.py files inside. 41 00:02:50,130 --> 00:02:53,070 Also outside my site. 42 00:02:53,070 --> 00:02:56,130 So still in app 17 django form. 43 00:02:56,130 --> 00:02:58,350 We also have manage.py. 44 00:02:58,980 --> 00:03:00,990 So what are these files. 45 00:03:00,990 --> 00:03:02,970 Well these. 46 00:03:02,970 --> 00:03:07,150 Some of these are configuration files and you shouldn't change them. 47 00:03:07,150 --> 00:03:09,190 So please just view them. 48 00:03:09,190 --> 00:03:15,070 You can double click and and look at what they are, but don't change anything. 49 00:03:15,070 --> 00:03:17,860 We will need to change some of the configurations. 50 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:23,230 But I'll tell you what exactly and I'll explain why we change that so that you know what you're doing. 51 00:03:23,230 --> 00:03:25,030 So for now, please don't change them. 52 00:03:25,390 --> 00:03:33,640 So this here and also manage.py right now, what we did so far is we created a project. 53 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:37,990 So this is known as Django Project in the Django vocabulary. 54 00:03:38,020 --> 00:03:40,720 Now we want to create a Django app. 55 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,220 So we have a project. 56 00:03:42,220 --> 00:03:44,980 We want to create an app to create an app. 57 00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:47,170 You run the command Python. 58 00:03:48,020 --> 00:03:49,970 Manage.py. 59 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:57,800 You see now so python is just the python commands and manage.py is the file we have in the current directory. 60 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:06,290 So you see I am in app 17 django form and in this directory I have this manage.py file. 61 00:04:06,290 --> 00:04:09,620 So that means python will execute this file. 62 00:04:09,650 --> 00:04:11,000 Manage.py. 63 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:21,649 Now this file is set up in a way that it expects commands and one of the commands is start app. 64 00:04:21,649 --> 00:04:24,560 Start app will create an app. 65 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:30,440 So a Django app, the web app we want to create, which in our case is the application, the job application 66 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:31,130 form. 67 00:04:31,130 --> 00:04:33,770 And then you want to give a name to that app. 68 00:04:35,570 --> 00:04:39,590 I do recommend to use an underscore if you have multiple words. 69 00:04:39,590 --> 00:04:45,950 So in my case this would be job underscore application and execute with enter. 70 00:04:46,310 --> 00:04:50,430 Once you execute it, a new directory should be displayed here. 71 00:04:50,430 --> 00:04:51,990 So let's refresh. 72 00:04:52,230 --> 00:04:54,420 You can refresh if it doesn't show up. 73 00:04:54,420 --> 00:04:55,770 And yeah, so there we go. 74 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,680 Job application, job underscore application. 75 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:05,010 So in the project root directory we have job application, my site and manage.py. 76 00:05:06,350 --> 00:05:15,410 Job application also has some configuration files, which are the configuration files of the app, not 77 00:05:15,410 --> 00:05:17,810 the configuration files of the project. 78 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:25,880 So under my side, we have the configuration files of the project and also manage.py is a configuration 79 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:32,570 file of the project, but a project can have multiple apps and each app will have its own directory. 80 00:05:32,570 --> 00:05:41,480 So now we have one app job application, but perhaps you want to expand your site, your website, perhaps 81 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,840 you want to also add a blog section on your website. 82 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:45,410 Right? 83 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:50,360 For that you would create a new app using this command again. 84 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:57,320 So Python manage Start app and you would say something like blog for the name and then a new directory 85 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,380 would be created here named blog. 86 00:06:00,380 --> 00:06:03,740 We don't want to do that, so please don't execute that. 87 00:06:04,010 --> 00:06:07,270 And so a project may contain multiple apps. 88 00:06:07,290 --> 00:06:14,730 Now we are almost ready to run our Django app so that we can see the results on the web page. 89 00:06:15,270 --> 00:06:24,480 But just before we do that, now, we want to modify one of the configuration files, the settings configuration 90 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:25,740 file of our project. 91 00:06:25,740 --> 00:06:34,950 So go to my site settings, double click that, and we want to register our app with the project. 92 00:06:34,950 --> 00:06:40,580 So you want to locate the installed app variable, which is equal to a list. 93 00:06:40,590 --> 00:06:43,690 So these are default apps. 94 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:51,000 All the projects you don't want to change them, but you want to add a new item to this list. 95 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,260 So it's a list spanning across multiple lines. 96 00:06:55,260 --> 00:07:01,800 So in here you want to press enter after the comma and then create a string. 97 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:06,900 I'll use single quotes to be consistent with these other strings here and here. 98 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:13,770 You want to type in the correct name of your app job underscore application. 99 00:07:13,950 --> 00:07:18,420 It's also good to have a comma here in case you add more apps in the future. 100 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:26,850 And once you have made that change, save the file with Ctrl or command s Now close the file so that 101 00:07:26,850 --> 00:07:35,490 you don't do any unwanted changes and then we're ready to run our app and see the output on the browser. 102 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:44,130 Now when we run a Flask app, what we did is we went to the Main.py file or app dot Pi where our code 103 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:49,200 was located, and then we run that file as we normally do with Python files. 104 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,450 So just right click and execute that file. 105 00:07:51,450 --> 00:07:54,390 Now running a Django app is a bit different. 106 00:07:54,390 --> 00:07:56,010 The process is a bit different. 107 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:04,650 You want to use a particular command in your terminal, so please type in Python manage.py followed 108 00:08:04,650 --> 00:08:07,350 by the run server command. 109 00:08:07,350 --> 00:08:16,320 So we are executing the same file which we executed during the creation of our job application app. 110 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:19,410 But this time we don't use the START app command. 111 00:08:19,410 --> 00:08:21,660 We use the run server command. 112 00:08:21,660 --> 00:08:26,280 So execute that and you should see this output. 113 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:29,820 So you want to go to that link. 114 00:08:29,820 --> 00:08:36,510 So either click on that link or right click to open it somewhere and you will see something like this. 115 00:08:36,510 --> 00:08:43,650 So that's the front page of your Django web app of your Django website. 116 00:08:43,830 --> 00:08:54,330 So Django, initially it shows some default view here, but later when we add an index.html file for 117 00:08:54,330 --> 00:09:02,160 our app and then we instruct Django that when the home page is visited, that index.html should show 118 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:02,850 up here. 119 00:09:02,850 --> 00:09:08,070 So then this view will reflect the contents of index.html. 120 00:09:08,070 --> 00:09:10,110 But for now this is what we get. 121 00:09:10,470 --> 00:09:16,830 So with that we have set up a Django project and a Django app successfully. 122 00:09:16,830 --> 00:09:21,330 So next is we need to add content to our app. 123 00:09:21,330 --> 00:09:22,980 So let's do that in the next videos. 124 00:09:23,010 --> 00:09:23,340 See you.