How to create a Django web application with Python!

Welcome back! Django is a very powerful framework that allows you to create web applications (pretty much full fledged web development) using Python. This is a very powerful addition to any engineers skillset, so let’s setup Django for your Python environment and setup your first project.

First Off

Make sure you have Python installed, in case you don’t please read this article I made to learn how to do install it, secondly, I would probably recommend that you have a basic understanding of Python before getting into web development for this language.

Installing Django

First off, let’s install Django! we do this by pip installing, if you don’t have pip, please read this article I created on installing pip. Once installed, run this line in your terminal:

pip install django

Once installed, let’s verify Django installed properly by running this in your terminal / command prompt:

python -m django — version

You should see this output:

Awesome, you have just setup your Django environment! You are pretty much ready to start building out your Django project!

Creating your first project