How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django ?

Last Updated : 18 Nov, 2022

Prerequisite – Django Project MVT Structure

Assuming you have gone through the previous article. This article focuses 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 the name projectName will be created. To enter in the project using the 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-

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# 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_geeks (request) :
 
    # This will return Hello Geeks
    # string as HttpResponse
    return HttpResponse("Hello Geeks")

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

from projectName.views import hello_geeks

Add an entry in url field inside url patterns-

path('geek/', hello_geeks),

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 geeks_site

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

$ python manage.py runserver

Checking – Open the browser and type this url-

http://127.0.0.1:8000/geek/

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