Create A New Project And Add Project To Sublime (Walkthrough)

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, so we've installed our virtual environment.
• 00:06 We've installed Django.
• 00:07 Now it's time to create our project.
• 00:09 So I'm going to go ahead and clear the screen and make sure we're in C/mywebsite.
• 00:15 Make sure our virtual environment has been turned on.
• 00:17 And to create a Django project we just type in django-admin.py startproject,
• 00:23 all one word, and then we just need to name our project.
• 00:27 So let's just call this djangowebsite, okay?
• 00:35 Now if we type in ls to list the stuff that's in this directory.
• 00:39 Notice we still have our virtual environment directory that we created
• 00:42 a couple of videos ago.
• 00:43 But now we have this djangowebsite directory.
• 00:46 So this is where our actual project is going to sit from now on,
• 00:49 inside this directory, so we need to change into that directory.
• 00:53 We need to use the cd command, change directory and
• 00:56 then just type in djangowebsite.
• 00:58 Now I just started to type dj and then I hit the Tab key on my keyboard,
• 01:03 and that auto corrected and typed out the whole thing for me.
• 01:07 It's just sort of a shortcut.
• 01:08 So go ahead and hit Enter.
• 01:12 And you can see now we're in C/mywebsite/djangowebsite.
• 01:16 And if we type in ls to list the stuff in this directory,
• 01:19 we see a couple of different things.
• 01:21 But the main thing we want to see is this manage.py file.
• 01:25 We'll talk about this later.
• 01:26 But the manage.py file is probably one of the most important files in Django.
• 01:31 We're going to use it for a lot of things, and it's a good rule of thumb when you're
• 01:36 in your terminal, you always want to be in the directory that has the manage.py file.
• 01:41 So if you're not really sure, if you can't really remember if you're supposed to
• 01:46 be in this directory, or this directory, just give a quick ls command and
• 01:50 see if the manage.py file appears.
• 01:52 If it does, you're in the right place.
• 01:54 So okay, we've got our project, it's been created.
• 01:57 Now we want to pull this up in sublime so that we can start actually writing code.
• 02:01 So fire up your Sublime Text Editor and come over here to Project and
• 02:06 click on it, and then come down here to Add Folder to Project.
• 02:10 And this box pops up, you just want to go down to your local disk,
• 02:15 your C drive, and then just navigate to the folder we've just created.
• 02:19 So it was my website and then djangowebsite.
• 02:23 Now click it once just to highlight it and then click Select Folder.
• 02:27 And when you do, boom, it pops up here and you can see here's our manage.py file that
• 02:31 we saw earlier and here's this djangowebsite directory.
• 02:35 And when we click this to expand it,
• 02:37 you can see there's all kinds of stuff inside of here.
• 02:39 So this is the setup we're going to be using for
• 02:42 throughout the rest of the course.
• 02:43 We're going to be working in Sublime Text from time to time.
• 02:46 We'll issue commands in our terminal.
• 02:49 But for the most part, we're going to be working inside this text editor.
• 02:53 So this is the sort of the main setup,
• 02:55 you'll you'll get used to seeing all these things.
• 02:58 And a lot of these files compared to some other web frameworks,
• 03:01 there's not a lot going on here.
• 03:02 There's not a lot of files, but there's still a few and
• 03:05 it might be a little confusing looking, but it's super simple.
• 03:09 We're not going to use most of these and
• 03:10 we'll start to talk about them in the next couple of videos.
• 03:13 But, very cool.
• 03:14 Now, in order to open any of these files all you have to do is click it.
• 03:19 And when you do it pops up close the file again, you'll just click this little x.
• 03:24 You can open several of.
• 03:26 Have them at the same time.
• 03:27 And very cool.
• 03:28 So that's all for this video.
• 03:29 In the next video, we'll go ahead and run the Django server and fire up our project
• 03:34 in a web browser to actually see if it was created successfully.
• 03:37 And that'll be in the next video.

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