day 4 of django: my first dajngo project

June 30, 2025

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Bee

on day four of django learning i created a simple project following these steps

Pre-requisites

Python installed
Basic command-line knowledge install django on your terminal run

  pip install django

1. Start a Django Project

In your terminal:

django-admin startproject myproject
cd myproject
python manage.py startapp restaurant
python manage.py startapp shop

myproject is the project name
shop and restaurant are the names of the site i wanted to create

Now, my structure looks like this :

open shop and it will display this

admin.py: Configuration for the Django admin interface.
apps.py: Configuration for the app itself.
models.py: Contains the database models for the app.
tests.py: Contains tests for the app.
views.py: Contains the request/response logic for the app.
migrations/: Contains database migrations for the app

2. Register the App

Open myproject/settings.py, find INSTALLED_APPS, and add ' shop'and 'restaurant':

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'shop',
    'restaurant',
]

this is how it looks!

3. Create a shop Model

we shall start with shop model

In shop/models.py:

from django.db import models

class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    content = models.TextField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

Then run:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

4. Register Model in Admin

In shop/admin.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Post

admin.site.register(Post)

here is how it looks

Create a superuser:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Run the server:

python manage.py runserver

Go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and add a few blog posts!

5. Show Posts in the Browser

In `shop/views.py`:

from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import Post

def home(request):
    posts = Post.objects.all()
    return render(request, 'shop/home.html', {'posts': posts})

Create a file: `shop/urls.py`

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.home, name='blog-home'),
]

Link it in your main `myproject/urls.py`:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('shop/', include('shop.urls')),
]

6. Create a Template

Create folders:

shop/templates/shop/home.html

Then add:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>My shop</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>shop Posts</h1>
    {% for post in posts %}
        <h2>{{ post.title }}</h2>
        <p>{{ post.goods }}</p>
        <hr>
    {% endfor %}
</body>
</html>

Done!

Now visit:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/shop/
And boom — your shop model will appear!