Hands-On Application Development with PyCharm

Running manage.py and launching the server

Next, we will see how we can interact with the manage.py file in Django. If you are experienced with Django, you might remember that we typically work with the manage.py file when we'd like to run project-wide tasks, such as launching the server or applying database migrations.

Typically, you would have to run a terminal command to evoke functionalities in the manage.py file. For example, to launch the server for your Django project, you would run the following:

python manage.py runserver

In PyCharm, you can open a separate panel within your Django project window that is solely dedicated to interacting with the manage.py file. This is quite similar to having a panel for the terminal within our project ...