A Practical Guide to Setting Up your First Django Project

Learn how to quickly build powerful web apps with Django. Step-by-step guide for beginners to master back-end development and create dynamic websites fast.

Think about building a small town from the ground up, basically SimCity cause I played that for a while. You’ve got to plan where the buildings go, how the roads connect, where the lights and plumbing run—every part needs to work together.

It takes some structure and planning to make it all function right?

Building a modern website works kind of the same way. You’ve got the actual buildings, which are like your data models. You need roads so people can get around—those are your URLs.

Then there’s the behind-the-scenes stuff, like power and plumbing—that’s your backend logic. And of course, how everything looks on the outside—those are your templates. Django is the tool that helps you pull all of this together.

If you’re just getting started with Django, you're in for a fun ride. It combines the simplicity of Python with the tools you need to build real websites that are backed by a database and fully functional.

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In this short article, I’m going to walk through the basics and help you build your first simple Django web app. This will give you a strong starting point and help you feel confident moving forward.

The goal of this is to really explain what are the starting Django files are and how we can use them. If you’ve seen Django then it may appear overwhelming because there are so many files, but they actually each serve a purpose.

I’m quite excited for this one as I’ve been having a lot of fun with Django, and actually breaking it down to see how it works. I’m currently building out a project surrounding this so I will link that at the bottom of the video so you all get some hands on experience working with it too!

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