This tutorial focuses on initial steps to start a new django web application

  By the end of this tutorial, you’ll know how to:

• Install python

• Install virtual environment

• Install python package manager (pip)

• Set up a virtual environment

• Install Django

• Pin your project dependencies

• Set up a Django project

• Start a Django app

1. Update the packages list

2. Install Supporting Software

3. Add the deadsnakes PPA to your system’s sources list, 

 When prompted, press [Enter] to continue.

 then refresh the package List again

4. Install python 3.8

Verify the installation by typing

5 Install development tools to ensure that we have a robust setup for our programming environment:

6 Install pip  (package installer for Python)

7. Install python virtual environment (venv)

8. Create a new Django project

• Create a folder to contain your project, here we will call the project "my site", create the folder and navigate into the folder 

• Setup a new virtual environment, lets call it "venv"

• Activate the new virtual environment, 

after the virtual environment has been activated, your terminal will be appended by (virtual environment) name, for this case it will be (venv)

• Install django into the dedicated workspace

python -m pip install django

Once installed, verify your Django installation by running a version check:

(venv) sammy@ubuntu:~/mysite$  django-admin --version

• Pin your dependencies,

django allows you to pin your dependencies to keep track of the package versions you have installed

• Create new project, lets create a new project called mysite, and place it in the current directory

The resulting project structure will look as below

9. Run the created django project

python manage.py runserver 

by default django will run on localhost on port 8000, to specify a different port (i.e 5000) run the following command 

python manage.py runserver 5000

and the resulting web page will be as follows