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    Django 2.x Cheat Sheet

Creating a virtual environment

We need to create a virtual env for our app to run in: More Here
Run this command in whatever folder you want to create your venv folder
python -m venv ./venv

Activate the virtualenv

# Mac/Linux
source ./venv/bin/activate

# Windows
venv\Scripts\activate.bat - May need to add full path (c:\users\....venv\Scripts\activate.bat)

Escape from venv

deactivate

Check packages installed in that venv

pip freeze

Install Django

pip install django

Create your project

django-admin startproject PROJECTNAME

Run Server (http://127.0.0.1:8000) CTRL+C to stop

python manage.py runserver

Create an app

python manage.py start app APPNAME

Create migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

Run migration

python manage.py migrate

Collect Static Files

python manage.py collectstatic