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The Django Cheatsheet provides essential information for beginners on using the Django web framework, including installation, project setup, and basic commands. It covers key concepts such as MVT architecture, creating models, views, and templates, as well as managing URLs and forms. Additionally, it includes instructions for migrations, admin interface setup, and page redirection.

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The Django Cheatsheet provides essential information for beginners on using the Django web framework, including installation, project setup, and basic commands. It covers key concepts such as MVT architecture, creating models, views, and templates, as well as managing URLs and forms. Additionally, it includes instructions for migrations, admin interface setup, and page redirection.

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Django Cheatsheet
"Django cheatsheet for beginners"
By CodeWithHarry Updated: 5 April 2025

What is Django?

Python-based web framework used for rapid development of web applications.

Installing Django + Setup

pip install django

Creating a project

The below command creates a new project named projectName .

django-admin startproject projectName

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Starting a server

The below command starts the development server.

python manage.py runserver

Django MVT

Django follows MVT (Model, View, Template) architecture.

Sample Django Model

The model represents the schema of the database.

from django.db import models

class Product(models.Model): # Product is the name of our model


product_id = models.AutoField

Sample views.py

View decides what data gets delivered to the template.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
return HttpResponse("Django CodeWithHarry Cheatsheet")

Sample HTML Template

A sample .html file that contains HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">

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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge">
<title>CodeWithHarry Cheatsheet</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a sample template file.</h1>
</body>
</html>

Views in Django

Sample Function-Based Views

A Python function that takes a web request and returns a web response.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
return HttpResponse("This is a function based view.")

Sample Class-Based Views

Django's class-based views provide an object-oriented way of organizing your view code.

from django.views import View

class SimpleClassBasedView(View):
def get(self, request):
pass # Code to process a GET request

URLs in Django

Set of URL patterns to be matched against the requested URL.

Sample urls.py file1

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from django.contrib import admin


from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlPatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', views.index, name='index'),
path('about/', views.about, name='about'),
]

Sample urls.py file2

from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
# ... snip ...
path('community/', include('aggregator.urls')),
path('contact/', include('contact.urls')),
# ... snip ...
]

Forms in Django

Similar to HTML forms but are created by Django using the form field.

Sample Django form

from django import forms

# creating a form
class SampleForm(forms.Form):
name = forms.CharField()
description = forms.CharField()

Apps in Django
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Apps in Django are like independent modules for different functionalities.

Creating an app

python manage.py startapp AppName

Listing app in the settings.py

After creating an app, we need to list the app name in INSTALLED_APPS .

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'AppName'
]

Templates in Django

Used to handle dynamic HTML files separately.

Configuring templates in settings.py

TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': ["templates"],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
# some options here
},
},
]

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Changing the views.py file

A view is associated with every URL. This view is responsible for displaying the content from
the template.

def index(request):
return render(request, 'index.html') # render is used to return the
template

Sample template file

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Template is working</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a sample django template.</h1>
</body>
</html>

Migrations in Django

Migrations are Django's way of updating the database schema according to the changes that
you make to your models.

Creating a migration

The below command is used to make migration (create files with information to update the
database) but no changes are made to the actual database.

python manage.py makemigrations

Applying the migration

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The below command is used to apply the changes to the actual database.

python manage.py migrate

Admin interface in Django

Django comes with a ready-to-use admin interface.

Creating the admin user

python manage.py createsuperuser

Page Redirection

Redirection is used to redirect the user to a specific page of the application on the occurrence
of an event.

Redirect method

from django.shortcuts import render, redirect

def redirecting(request):
return redirect("https://www.codewithharry.com")

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