Basic Process For Setting Up A Django Home Page
TODO: Fix the formatting of this post that got busted during the move to nextjs
Basic Setup for Foreign Key stuff
- Make the name of the project ``config`` in the same directory as the pyvenv.
django-admin startproject config .
python manage.py startapp pages
python manage.py migrate
- In `config/settings.py`, Add;
'pages'
To:
INSTALLED_APPS
- In `config/settings.py, under:
TEMPLATES
Change:
'DIRS': [],
To:
TODO: think about moving this down.
'DIRS': [str(BASE_DIR.joinpath('templates'))],
- In ``config/urls.py`` change:
from django.urls import path
To:
from django.urls import includes, path
- In ``config/urls.py`` add this:
path('', include('pages.urls')),
To:
urlpatterns
- Create file:
pages/urls.py
With:
-- code
-- python
from django.urls import path
from . import views
app_name = 'pages'
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.homepage),
]
-- p
- Change ``pages/views.py`` to:
from django.shortcuts import render
def homepage(request):
return render(
request,
'pages/homepage.html'
)
- Make `pages/templates/pages/homepage.html`
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h3>Welcome to the Music Site</h3>
{% endblock content %}
- Make ``templates/base.html`` at the root of the project. With something like:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Music site</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Music Site</h1>
{% block content %}{% endblock content %}
</body>
</html>
-- hr
TODO: Add:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / "static",
]
~ fin ~