Creating My First Django Application Part 2

4 min readMar 2, 2020

Hello Folks , Earlier we installed Django in our system and successfully created our first project and a application.

Visit Creating My First Django Application Part 1

Installation for Windows and Linux is same.

Run Server to start the application

python manage.py runserver

After running the above command a lightweight server will start running at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Now open browser and open http://127.0.0.1:8000

Creating View

This is where your application views are. A view function, or “view” for short, is simply a Python function that takes a web request and returns a web response. This response can be the HTML contents of a Web page, or a redirect, or a 404 error, or an XML document, or an image, etc.

Locate the views.py from the your app folder.
Open views.py using an Editor of your choice
Write the following Code

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
# Create your views here.def hello(request):
 text=”<h1>This is my first Application</h1>”
 return HttpResponse(text)

Each views.py is responsible for doing following 3task

Returning a HttpResponse object containing the content of the page you request.
Render a HTML file and send as a HttpResponse
Raise an exception such as Http404,503 etc
Rest depends on your requirement such as calling other function or requesting other urls

It is as important that you configure urls.py in your project folder so that django map the url with the view you just created.

URL Mapping

A clean, elegant URL scheme is an important detail in a high-quality Web application. Django lets you design URLs however you want, with no framework limitations.

Locate the urls.py from the your project folder.
Open urls.py using an Editor of your choice
Write the following Code

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from myapp import viewsurlpatterns = [
 path(‘hello/’,views.hello)]

One can add the views in url patterns using following

Function views

Add an import: from my_app import views
Add a URL to urlpatterns: path(‘’, views.home, name=’home’)

Class-based views

Add an import: from other_app.views import Home
Add a URL to urlpatterns: path(‘’, Home.as_view(), name=’home’)

Including another URLconf

Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path
Add a URL to urlpatterns: path(‘blog/’, include(‘blog.urls’))

Open Browser and open http://127.0.0.1:8000/hello

Render HTML files in views

To enable templates in django, create a new folder in you app directory “templates”
Django will fetch the .html file automatically from the directory
Add a index.html (or any other named file in newly created directory)

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>This is a Sample Django Application</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR=”FFFFFF”> 
<HR>
<a href=”http://gtu.ac.in">Link Name</a>
is a link to another nifty site
<H1>This is a Header</H1>
<H2>This is a Medium Header</H2>
Send me mail at <a href=”nareshkr.22@gmail.com”>
nareshkr.22@gmail.com</a>.
<P> This is a new paragraph!
<P> <B>This is a new paragraph!</B>
<BR> <B><I>This is a new sentence without a paragraph break, in bold italics.</I></B>
<HR>
</BODY>
</HTML>