⚡️Day 19/20 – Let's Bring Our Django App to Life! 🎯

Day 19 of the #20DoLC

We’re almost there! Can you believe it? 19 days down, 1 more to go! 🚀 This journey has been nothing short of amazing, and now we’re about to cross the finish line of our 20-day challenge with Africa Agility Foundation Cohort 8! But before we celebrate, let’s take one more step towards greatness😊.

Yesterday, we built the foundation of our Django project. But what’s a house without rooms? 🤔 Today, we’re adding our first Django app—think of it as a cool feature inside your project! 🚀

🎬 Step 1: Let's create a Django App

Every great project starts with a small step. Let’s create our app!

🛠️ In your terminal, run:

🔹 Replace myapp with a name that matches your app’s purpose.

What just happened? Django created a new folder (myapp/) filled with everything we need to build something amazing! 🚀

📌 Step 2: Let's tell Django about our App

Now, we need to register our app so Django knows it exists.

Open settings.py and find the INSTALLED_APPS section. Add your app like this:

✅ Now Django knows your app is part of the squad!

💡 Step 3: Let's create our first view

A view is like the director of a movie—it decides what content the audience (users) will see.

Open myapp/views.py and add this:

📢 This function tells Django to display text when a user visits our site.

🌍 Step 4: Set Up URL Routing

URLs are like addresses. If you want people to visit your page, you need an address!

1️⃣ Inside myapp/, create a new file called urls.py and add:

2️⃣ Now, connect it to your project’s urls.py: Open urls.py in your project folder and modify it like this:

🎯 Now, Django knows where to send users when they visit our site!

🚀 Step 5: Run the Django Server

The moment of truth!

Start your Django development server:

Then, open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.

🎉 BOOM! You should see: 🚀 Welcome to My First Django App! 🚀

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