Demo Django Project

This is simple CRUD application that uses the Django framework. This project is based on the Django Workshop. To see full project that was the basis of the workshop, here is the link

Requirements

Django. Recommended version used is provided in requirements.txt in case problems occur
Virtualenv. It strongly recommended to always run in a sandboxed environment especially when working on mulitple projects. For more information please check out the official documentation.
- Alternatively you can also use conda environments

How to run :

When the requirements have been installed first run the migration tool to initialize the database.

python manage.py migrate

This uses SQLite for portability.

Then :

python manage.py runserver

How it was done

currently work in progress

Create the Notes App

python manage.py startapp notes

This will create a note app.

Creating our model

we create our model

Under notes/models.py

class AuditModelMixin(models.Model):

    created_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    modified_time = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

    class Meta:
        abstract = True


class Note(AuditModelMixin):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=129, blank=True)
    note = models.TextField(blank=True)

Here we create an abstract class AuditModelMixin, a class that we will inherit for reuse some fields such as created_time and modified_time

the Note class will be the model for the items we will be using

After creating our model, run

python manage.py makemigrations

This will generate sql migration scripts or files that will generate our tables. Then we will run

python manage.py migrate

To apply the changes in the database

Now that we have our tables, we can proceed in creating our views and template.

Preparing the Templates

The base Template

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Notes App {{ page_title }}</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
	<div class="row">
			<div class="col-md-12">		
				{% block content %}
				{% endblock %}
			</div>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Save this file as base.html. This will serve as the page that we will extend for the other templates we will be using. We will then create those templates. Since the {% block content %} is where our content will go, just write the content you need on the template you will write.

TBA

jeremejazz / hello-django