Django Project Blueprints

Appendix A. Development Environment Setup Details and Debugging Techniques

This appendix will go into further detail about the Django development environment setup that we have been using throughout the book. We will look into the details of the setup, and I will explain each of the steps that we took. I will also show you a technique for debugging Django applications. For this appendix, we will assume that the project we are setting up is the Blueblog project from the first chapter.

We will start our project by first creating a root directory for it and then cd into the directory so that all our commands are run inside it:

> mkdir blueblog
> cd blueblog

There is no technical reason for this. I just prefer to keep all the files related to a project ...