Django is one of the best web frameworks written in python. It enables to build the full-scale web application efficiently as it contains many libraries and tools that handle many tasks like URL routing, authentication, database management, and more in an easy way.

Let's see how to set up and run your first Django project.

Steps to be followed

• By using the terminal create a folder myproject and enter into it.

    mkdir myproject
    cd myproject
  

• Create a virtual environment and activate it in the entered folder. So that you can later install the dependencies required for the project in the virtual environment so that the main environment will not get affected.

    python -m venv env
    env\Scripts\activate
  

• Install the Django package in the virtual environment through package manager pip.

    pip install django-admin
  

• Create a Django project called project

    django-admin startproject project
  

• Now Django will create project folder in which you will find the Django project called project and the required files.

• The file structure should be like this.

  

• If you don't want your Django project in a separate folder called project but instead in the root folder myproject, you should execute the below command while creating the Django project

    django-admin startproject project .
  

  Now the file structure should be like this.

  

• Now that you have set up the Django project, to run it on a web browser execute the command

    python manage.py runserver
  

• Open the web browser and go to the URL shown in the terminal (usually it will be http://127.0.0.1:8000/ )

  

Ta-da!, now your Django project is running in the web browser.

Conclusion

This is how you set up a Django project and run it on the server.

Thanks for reading the article. If you have any doubts regarding this feel free to comment below.