Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App

Django projects contain a predefined structure with some key files. In this chapter, we will discuss the Django project structure and how some of those files are used to configure our web applications. Furthermore, Django projects are composed of one or more apps. We will learn how to create a movie app and how to register it inside our Django project.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the project structure
  • Creating our first app

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will be using Python 3.8+. Additionally, we will be using the Visual Studio (VS) Code editor for building our web application in this book, which you can download from ...

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