1. Initializing

1. Create a virtual enviroment in vscode

2. Install django on the cmd prompt

pip install django

1. Whithout exiting the comand prompt, create the necessary project folders with:

django-admin startproject ecommerce

Files created by the command

A django site is composed of many "apps" (sub-sites) that contain major features of the main site. Ex: a blog would be a separate "app" from a online store as they have significantly different features

1. In order to perform actions and tests we always need to be located inside the main ecommerce directory.

Command prompt:

cd ecommerce

1. To create our first "app" (the store website), we need to run the following command that will create the folders and files necessary for its creation:

Command prompt:

python manage.py startapp store

1. Lastly, in order to run the app localy use the following command:

Command prompt:

python manage.py runserver