Django Project Blueprints

Setting up our development environment

For this first chapter, I'll go into some details about setting up the development environment. For later chapters, I'll only be providing minimal instructions. For further details about how I setup the development environment and why, take a look at Appendix, Development Environment Setup Details and Debugging Techniques.

Let's start by creating the directory structure for our project, setting up the virtual environment and configuring some base Django settings that need to be set up in every project. Let's call our blogging platform BlueBlog.

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