Decoupled Django: Understand and Build Decoupled Django Architectures for JavaScript Front-ends

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V. GagliardiDecoupled Django https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7144-5_5

5. Setting Up a Django Project

Valentino Gagliardi¹  

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Colle di Val D’Elsa, Italy

 

This chapter covers:

• Setting up the Django project

In the following sections, we begin to lay down the structure of our Django project.

This project will accompany us for the rest of the book. It will be expanded with a REST API in Chapter 6, and later with a GraphQL API.

Setting Up the Project

To start off, create a new folder for the project and move into it:

mkdir decoupled-dj && cd $_

Note

It is a good idea to keep the project under source control with Git. You are encouraged to initialize a repo with git ...