In this chapter, we prepared our development environment, created our first project, and learned how to launch the Django development server. We are now ready to start building our social bookmarking application.
Here is a quick summary of the Django features covered in this chapter:
Django can be downloaded from the official Django website at http://www.djangoproject.com/. Given that it is written in Python, the same package works on all major operating systems.
To start a new Django project, issue the following command:
$ django-admin.py startproject <project-name>
To create database tables, issue the following command:
$ python manage.py syncdb
To start the development server, issue the following command:
$ python manage.py runserver
Django project settings are stored in the
settings.py
file. This file is a regular Python source file that can be edited using any source code editor. To change a variable, simply assign the desired value to it.
The next chapter takes you through...