django-todo is a task management web application built with Django. In this tutorial, we will describe how to install django-todo on macOS.
Before installing django-todo, you need to have the following prerequisites on your machine:
Virtualenv is a tool that creates an isolated Python environment for your project. We will install virtualenv using pip:
pip install virtualenv
Next, we will create a virtual environment for our django-todo project. Navigate to the directory where you want to create the virtual environment and create a new directory called env:
mkdir env
Navigate inside the env directory and create a new virtual environment using the virtualenv command:
cd env
virtualenv env_todo
This creates a new virtual environment called env_todo inside the env directory.
Activate the virtual environment by running the activate script inside the env_todo/bin directory:
source env_todo/bin/activate
You should see the name of your virtual environment in your command prompt:
(env_todo) your_username $
We will install django-todo using pip:
pip install django-todo
Navigate to the directory where you want to create your django-todo project and run the following command:
django-admin startproject myproject
This creates a new Django project called myproject.
Navigate inside the myproject directory and create a new Django app called todo:
cd myproject
python manage.py startapp todo
Open the settings.py file and add 'todo' to the INSTALLED_APPS list:
# myproject/settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'todo', # add this line
]
Open the urls.py file and add a URL pattern for the todo app:
# myproject/urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('todo/', include('todo.urls')), # add this line
]
Create the database tables for your Django project:
python manage.py migrate
Start the Django development server:
python manage.py runserver
You should now be able to access your django-todo project by navigating to http://localhost:8000/todo/ in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have described how to install django-todo on macOS. We have also created a new Django project and app, configured the Django settings and URLs files, created the database tables, and started the Django development server.
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