Building a CRUD Application using Django

Installations and Setting Up Django

If you would like to do this project in a virtual environment, I’m sure there are many tutorials to help you create one. After you have created a virtual environment, proceed with this tutorial. If you do not care about virtual environment stuffs, also proceed.

Run the command below to install Django (consider running sudo if you are not doing this in a virtual environment)

$ pip install Django==2.0.5

2. Verify the Django version installed by running the command below:

$ django-admin --version

Creating the Project

Let us now create a directory for our Django projects with

$ mkdir django_projects

2. Move into this directory with

cd django_projects

3. Create the project with

$ django-admin startproject CRUD
$ cd CRUD

4. Run the development server

$ python manage.py runserver

You should see something like this

5. Navigate to http://localhost:8000/ on your browser and you should see something like this:

Congratulations!!!! You are now ready to start building the CRUD app

Building the CRUD APP

Let us create an app called Crud in the CRUD project. Close the development server with Ctrl + C

Create the app with

$ python manage.py startapp Crud

So far, we have a directory structure like this

Open the settings.py file to specify the allowed hosts as well as add the Crud app to installed apps. You should have something like the below:

The Post Model

For our Crud app, we would like to be able to Create, Modify, View and Delete a post. Let us now define a post model in our models.py file. Open the models.py file in your favorite text editor and paste the below codes:

from django.db import models
class Post(models.Model):
 title = models.CharField(max_length=120, help_text='title of message.')
 message = models.TextField(help_text="what's on your mind ...")
def str(self):

return self.title

Our post has a title and a message as fields.

Make Migrations

Run the commands below to make migrations:

$ python manage.py makemigrations

$ python manage.py migrate

Superuser

Let us now create a superuser to manage our application

Run the following in the terminal:

$ python manage.py createsuperuser

You will be prompted to enter a username, email address, password and password confirmation. If the superuser is successfully created, we can now run the development server and log on to the Django admin page. Run the development server with

$ python manage.py runserver

Navigate to http://localhost:8000/admin on your browser and you should see something similar as below:

Enter the details to log in.

You should see a page similar to that below:

Our post is not displayed here since we have not registered it in the admin.

Open the admin.py file in a text editor and add the following codes:

from django.contrib import admin

from .models import Post #add this to import the Post model

admin.site.register(Post) #add this to register the Post model

Refresh the page again and this time you should see the post appear as below

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