StartApp

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, in this video, we're going to start to build out our app.
• 00:07 So before we do that, I need to explain a quick concept with Django.
• 00:10 With Django, everything is an app, right?
• 00:14 So we've created a project, but we haven't created any apps.
• 00:18 And anytime you want to do something in Django, you create an app for it.
• 00:22 So we're going to build what's going to be a little personal resume website.
• 00:26 So we need to create a resume app within our Django project.
• 00:30 And for the most part, if your website's not that complicated,
• 00:33 you'll just build one app, and it'll be that website.
• 00:36 But if you want to add different things to your website later on,
• 00:39 like a message board or a tech support center or something like that,
• 00:43 you'll likely create a separate app for each of those things.
• 00:46 Now those are advanced topics, we're not really going to deal with that in this
• 00:50 course, we're just going to build one simple app, one simple website, but
• 00:54 just sort of getting in the habit of thinking of things in Django as apps.
• 00:59 So we need to create our first app, and
• 01:01 that's what we're going to do in this video.
• 01:03 So head back over to our terminal.
• 01:05 And I'm going to clear the screen here.
• 01:08 So to create an app, we just type in python manage.py.
• 01:11 Remember, almost always python manage.py, and the command we want is startapp,
• 01:16 and then we need to name our new app, and let's just call it resume.
• 01:20 You can really call it anything you want, and boom, it's done.
• 01:25 So now we can head back over to our Sublime text editor, and we see, boom,
• 01:29 this new resume directory popped right up.
• 01:31 And we didn't have to do anything to Sublime, it just popped up automatically,
• 01:36 and we're good to go.
• 01:37 So we still have our original Django website folder, and
• 01:41 it still has those same files that were in it.
• 01:44 Now we just have this new resume folder with a bunch of stuff in it.
• 01:47 And you'll notice there's a lot more stuff in this folder
• 01:52 than there were in our original Django website directory.
• 01:57 And that's because for the most part from here on out,
• 02:00 we're going to be working in this resume folder.
• 02:03 We're going to be building out our resume website, so
• 02:05 the things that we're going to be doing are inside this directory.
• 02:09 So you can see there's a views.py file.
• 02:11 It's basically empty right now.
• 02:12 There's tests, we won't be talking about that in this course.
• 02:16 There's models, models are another word for database.
• 02:20 So we're not going to be doing any database stuff in this course, so
• 02:23 we can ignore that.
• 02:24 Apps.py, admin.py, we'll talk about this, it has to do with the administration area,
• 02:30 which is again a database thing, and we're not going to be dealing with database
• 02:34 stuff in this course, so we can ignore that.
• 02:36 And this init.py file and you'll notice that it's completely empty.
• 02:40 And if we look at our Django website,
• 02:43 it had an init.py file as well that was also empty.
• 02:46 That's just a Django thing.
• 02:47 Most directories that are created using Django in Django come with
• 02:51 an empty init.py file, you can just sort of ignore that.
• 02:55 So this is the structure we're going to be dealing with throughout the rest of
• 03:00 the course.
• 03:01 And like I said, we're going to be mostly dealing with this resume directory.
• 03:05 Now we've got pretty much all of the framework done.
• 03:08 We've got all the tools that we're going to need.
• 03:09 We've installed everything.
• 03:11 We've created our project, we've created an app within the project.
• 03:16 We've migrated the server, we've migrated the database, and
• 03:20 now we can actually start to build out our actual website and
• 03:24 make it look better than this basic little rocket page that we have so far.
• 03:30 So in the next video, we'll look at Django views,
• 03:34 which are basically web pages and that'll be in the next video.
• 03:40 [BLANK AUDIO]

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