Django Getting started with Django A complete hello world example.
Example
Step 1 If you already have Django installed, you can skip this step.
pip install Django
Step 2 Create a new project
django-admin startproject hello
That will create a folder named hello which will contain the following files:
hello/
├── hello/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ └── wsgi.py
└── manage.py
Step 3
Inside the hello module (the folder containing the __init.py__) create a file called views.py:
hello/
├── hello/
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── views.py <- here
│ └── wsgi.py
└── manage.py
and put in the following content:
from django.http import HttpResponse
def hello(request):
return HttpResponse('Hello, World')
This is called a view function.
Step 4
Edit hello/urls.py as follows:
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from hello import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^$', views.hello)
]
which links the view function hello() to a URL.
Step 5 Start the server.
python manage.py runserver
Step 6
Browse to http://localhost:8000/ in a browser and you will see:
Hello, World
