Creating a Django application

Once we have the base and file structure, we can create our application. To create an application, we need to execute the following command in the console:

$ python manage.py startapp djangoApp

With this command, a new djangoApp directory has been created with the following structure:

After creating an application, we also need to tell Django to use it. This is done in the djangoApplication/settings.py file, where we have to find the INSTALLED_APPS array in the Application definition section and add a line that contains the name of our djangoApp application:

# Application definitionINSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', ...

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