🚀Quick Start

Welcome to the Django, your go-to foundation for building powerful web applications with Django, HTML5, and Bootstrap 5.*. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up and start us.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following installed on your machine:

  • Node.js ( Node v20.*)

  • Python (3.6 or higher)

  • Django (4.2 or higher)

  • A code editor of your choice (e.g., Visual Studio Code, Atom, Sublime Text, etc)

Build Assets

Before running the application we need to build theme assets:

  1. Open your project to vs code.

  2. Start a command prompt window or terminal and change directory to Lightable-Node/

  3. Install packages using one of following commands

yarn install
OR
npm install

This command will fetch all dependencies listed in /package.json and place them into/node_modules folder.

  1. You can use Gulp command to bundle theme assets. The below command will compile all the assets(sass, js, media) to /public/assets folder:

gulp

Install Python

Django is a Python web framework. See What Python version can I use with Django? for details.

  1. Get the latest version of Python at https://www.python.org/downloads/ or with your operating system’s package manager.

  2. Download the executable installer and run it.

  3. After installation, open the command prompt and check that the Python version matches the version you installed by executing:

python --version

Check Pip Version

py -m pip --version
upgrade pip
py -m pip install --upgrade pip

Virtualenv

Make sure to have the virtualenv installed globally & running on your computer. If you already have installed on your computer, you can skip this step.

Virtualenv installation command for Linux & mac os

python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv

Virtualenv installation command for Windows

py -m pip install --user virtualenv

Activate Virtual Environment on Windows OS

environment-name/Scripts/activate

Django

Install Django on linux & mac OS

python -m pip install Django

Install Django on Windows OS

py -m pip install Django

Note: Depending on your installation, you may need to use either pip3 or pip and for python you may need to use either python3 or python.

Run Project

You have x unapplied migration(s). Your project may not work properly until you apply the migrations for app(s): admin, auth, contenttypes, sessions. Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.

python manage.py migrate

Setting up Static Files

Go to light_able_django/settings.py and add following command:-

```python
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'public/assets')]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
```

Run below command for run your project

python manage.py runserver
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