Getting started with Django roadmap — Part 1

Have you ever started learning Django and are completely confused about the various steps to take. For example, when to run the migrate command, when to run the makemigrations command etc. If this is you, you are in the right place. So let’s get started.

Django getting started roadmap

1. Creating a project

django-admin startproject

This is the first action you need to take when creating a Django project and yuo will only ever need to run it once in the project’s lifecycle.

2. Modify settings.py file

After you have created your project, it is always recommended to go to modify your settings.py file. There you will see a lot of things you can customise. See Django 4.0 Api reference for more information.

A list of settings you may want to play around with in the settings.py files are:

SECRET_KEY
ALLOWED_HOSTS
DATABASES["NAME"]
LANGUAGE_CODE
TIMEZONE

Once satisfied the next thing you want to do is run the python manage.py migrate command.

3. migrate vs makemigrations command