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Django has a built-in server that we can use during development.
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 will run the server for Workspaces. On your own computer, you probably don't need the 0.0.0.0:8000 part.
python manage.py migrate will apply all pending migrations from all apps. More on apps later.
What are migrations?
Migrations are a way of moving a database from one design, a specific set of tables and columns, to a new one. Migrations are reversible, too. The fact that they can be done backwards and forwards is what gives them their name.
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>> Okay, so you have Django installed,
and you've created a project.
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You're well on your way
to becoming a Djangonaut.
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Yeah, that's the collective noun for
people that use Django.
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Okay, enough about silly nouns, let's
go see how to get Django server up and
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running so we can get to the fun
part of building an app.
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So, remember the manage.py file?
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The one that I said would be our main
control script, our entry point for
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our project?
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Well, we're going to use it.
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If you did the Flask courses,
you'll remember that we had to tell Flask
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to listen for
requests on 0.0.0 in port 8000.
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Well we have to do that with Django too.
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If you didn't take the Flask
courses we have to do this so
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that Django can talk through our work
spaces server to the actual internet so
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that we can see it from wherever
we are are on the internet.
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Let's go ahead and run this.
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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna do,
first we gotta get in there.
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cd learning_site/.
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I'm in the same directory as manage.py.
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So, I'm gonna do python manage.py and
then I'm gonna do run server.
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And the address I'm gonna
go to is 0.0.0.0:8000.
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And I hit Return, and you're gonna see
a bunch of stuff run through here.
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Don't worry about this too much right now,
we'll get back to it in a minute.
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And then I'm gonna come up here to the
Preview icon, and I'm gonna click 8000.
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Check that out.
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I've got a Django powered page
telling me everything is good.
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That's awesome, wonderful,
glad to have that.
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So let's go back.
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And if we look here in our output we have
this, you have unapplied migrations.
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What is that?
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What is that about?
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That's really weird.
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So, what this is,
is Django comes with some migrations.
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So migrations are a way of moving your
database from one design to another.
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You're moving, you're changing
the structure, the organization or
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the data in the database from
one configuration to another.
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Often you'll find that your
table now needs a new column
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to handle an extra little bit of data.
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Or maybe you want to store a preferred
name alongside the legal name that you've
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already collected.
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You'd add this column with a migration.
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Which moves the table from
one design into the other.
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You can reverse this process too,
and remove the column.
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Since you're moving back and forth,
that's what gives it the name migration.
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So, we're gonna kill our server here.
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I can do that with Ctrl+C.
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And we're gonna run our migrations.
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So.
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We do python manage.py migrate.
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Just like it says to do right here.
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We follow the instructions
that run server gives us.
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It prints out a whole bunch of stuff.
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And we can see that it found
a few different operations and
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it's running migrations for
I think four different apps.
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So, migrations, I said,
were about the database.
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We didn't set up a database.
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Well, Django comes with one.
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So, let's refresh.
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And if we look here,
then we have this db.sqlite3.
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Django automatically
creates this database for
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us if we don't tell it
something else to do.
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So we have this automatically.
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Now this is SQLite.
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This is fine for testing your idea or
playing around in.
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If you get really serious, you're
gonna wanna move to a real database,
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you're wanna move to MySQL or
Postgres, and
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you definitely wanna use one of those two,
or one of the other wonderful databases
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that are out there before you go
live on the internet and have users.
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Let's try doing our run server again.
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Push Up a couple of times.
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And this time we don't
get any error messages.
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And if we come over here and
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refresh our site,
it still loads just like it's supposed to.
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If you didn't quite get what
migrations are about, don't worry.
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We're gonna be creating and
running more of them later on.
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But, the first thing you have to do
with any new technology is make your own
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Hello World.
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So, let's do that next.
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