How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django ?

Prerequisite – Django Project MVT Structure

Assuming you have gone through the previous article. This article focusses on creating a basic project to render a template using MVT architecture. We will use MVT (Models, Views, Templates) to render data to a local server.

Create a basic Project:

• To initiate a project of Django on Your PC, open Terminal and Enter the following command

django-admin startproject projectName

• A New Folder with name projectName will be created. To enter in the project using terminal enter command

cd projectName

• Create a new file views.py inside the project folder where settings.py, urls.py and other files are stored and save the following code in it-

# HttpResponse is used to 
# pass the information  
# back to view 
from django.http import HttpResponse 
  
# Defining a function which 
# will receive request and 
# perform task depending  
# upon function definition 
def hello_geek (request) : 
  
    # This will return Hello Mca 
    # string as HttpResponse 
    return HttpResponse("Hello MCA") 

• Open urls.py inside project folder (projectName) and add your entry-
• Import hello_geek function from views.py file.

from projectName.views import hello_mcatutorials

• Add an entry in url field inside url patterns-

path('geek/', hello_geek),

• Now to run the server follow these steps-
• Open command prompt and change directory to env_site by this command-

$ cd env_site

• Go to Script directory inside env_site and activate virtual environment-

$ cd Script

$ activate

• Return to the env_site directory and goto the project directory-

$ cd ..

$ cd mcatutorials_site

• Start the server- Start the server by typing following command in cmd-

$ python manage.py runserver

Note- Take the help of previous django article if any issue arises in starting the server.

• Checking – Open the browser and type this url-

http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcatutorials/

Bingo…!! You are done with creating and rendering a basic Project.