Fixtures
Our database is empty, but right now we don't have any views to add objects to our database. We could do what we did in the last chapter and create a management command, but there's an easier way. I have added three Car objects to the database and then created a dump of this data that you can load. A data dump like this is called a fixture. We'll discuss fixtures in a bit; for now, let's see how to use them to load data in our database.
On your command line, run this command in the project root with the virtual environment activated:
> python manage.py loaddata frontend/fixtures/initial.json Installed 3 object(s) from 1 fixture(s)
Refresh the web page and now you should see a web page similar to this:
Now we have three cars in our database. ...
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