Setup Django

Introduction

Lexa is a fully featured premium admin dashboard template in Django with developer-friendly codes.

Prerequisites

Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:

  • Nodejs

    Make sure to have the Node.js installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Node on your computer, you can skip this step if your existing node version is greater than 18.

  • Yarn

    Make sure to have the Yarn installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Yarn on your computer, you can skip this step. We suggest you to use Yarn instead of NPM.

  • Gulp

    Make sure to have the Gulp installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed gulp on run command npm install -g gulp from your terminal.

  • Git

    Make sure to have the Git installed globally & running on your computer. If you already have installed git on your computer, you can skip this step.

  • Python

    Make sure to have the Python installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed Python on your computer, you can skip this step. Please use Python version 3 or if you are using python version 2 then make sure to run all the below commands with python insted of python3.

    For windows
    • Download python from windows store
    • Select the Python's version to download.
    • Click on the Install Now
    • Installation in Process
    For Linux
    • sudo apt update
    • sudo apt install python3

  • Check Pip version

    py -m pip --version
    upgread pip
    py -m pip install --upgrade pip

  • Virtualenv

    Make sure to have the virtualenv installed globally & running on your computer. If you already have installed on your computer, you can skip this step.

    Virtualenv installation command for linux & mac os
    python3 -m pip install --user virtualenv
    Virtualenv installation command for Windows
    py -m pip install --user virtualenv

Installation
  • Install Prerequisites

    Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running on your computer

After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal / command prompt from the root directory of the project to run the project locally or build for production use:

Command Description
yarn install This would install all the required dependencies in the node_modules folder.
gulp Runs the project locally, starts the development server and watches for any changes in your code, including your HTML, javascript, sass, etc. The development server is accessible at http://localhost:8000.
python -m venv environment_name Create Virtual Environment on linux & mac OS
python -m venv environment_name Create Virtual Environment on Windows OS
source environment_name/bin/activate Activate Environment on Linux & mac OS
environment_name/Scripts/activate Activate Environment on Windows OS
pip3 install django Install Django on linux & mac OS
pip install django Install Django on Windows OS

Note: Depending on your installation, you may need to use either pip3 or pip and for python you may need to use either python3 or python.

After you finished with the above steps, you can run the following commands into the terminal / command prompt from the root directory of the project to run the project locally:

Install few libraries
pip install django-allauth
pip3 install django-embed-video
pip install django-crispy-forms

Database Connectivity
Goto settings.py of main directory and update below settings. 

    DATABASES = {
        'default': {
            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.#databaseservername#',
            'NAME': 'Your Database Name',
            'USER' : 'Database User Name',
            'PASSWORD' : 'Your Password',
            'HOST' : 'Write down Host',
            'PORT' : 'Write down port',
        }
    }

Run below command for database migration
For Windows: python manage.py migrate
For Linux: python manage.py migrate

To create a superuser run the below command
python manage.py createsuperuser
enter username Your Username
enter your Email Address
enter your Password
enter your Password again

To load static files
Go to lexa/settings.py and add following command:-
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')]
STATIC_ROOT= os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'assets')

python manage.py collectstatic

Run below command for run your project
For Windows: python manage.py runserver
For Linux: python manage.py runserver

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