Creating your first project

Our first Django project will be building a complete blog. Django provides a command that allows you to create an initial project file structure. Run the following command from your shell:

django-admin startproject mysite

This will create a Django project with the name mysite.

Avoid naming projects after built-in Python or Django modules in order to avoid conflicts.

Let's take a look at the project structure generated:

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
      __init__.py
      asgi.py
      wsgi.py
      settings.py
      urls.py

These files are as follows:

• manage.py: This is a command-line utility used to interact with your project. It is a thin wrapper around the django-admin.py tool. You don't need to edit this file.
• mysite/: This is your project directory, which consists of the following files:
  • __init__.py: An empty file that tells Python to treat the mysite directory as...