Dkango Command Line Interface Cheatsheet

• start a new Python env: conda create -n my_env pip python=3.8.8

• activate Python Env: conda activate my_env

• create custom pylint file: pylint --generate-rcfile > .pylintrc

• install Django: pip install django

• update requirements.txt: pip list --format=freeze > requirements.txt

• start django app: django-admin startproject my_project

• run django server: python manage.py runserver -port=8000

• start new django app: python manage.py startapp my_app

• make the migration: python manage.py makemigrations

• migrate the main database: python manage.py migrate

• migrate the app database: python manage.py migrate my_app

• see SQL commands run by django: python manage.py sqlmigrate first_app 0001

• run django shell: python manage.py shell

• run django db shell: python manage.py dbshell

• run django tests: python manage.py test

• import modules in the shell: from first_app.models import MyModel

• examples of queries: MyModel.objects.all(), MyModel.objects.filter(name='my_name'), MyModel.objects.filter(age__gte=20).all(), MyModel.objects.filter(first_name__startswith="c").all(), MyModel.objects.filter(first_name__startswith="c").exclude(age__gte=20).all(), MyModel.objects.order_by('age').all()

• create superuser: python manage.py createsuperuser

• run tests python manage.py test --verbosity=2

• collect all static files python manage.py collectstatic (run this command in the production environments)

• group all the application and output database diagram into PNG file python manage.py graph_models -a -g -o imagefile_name.png