django - Creating E-commerce website with apps setups

Here, We will be creating a django E-commerce project named "myEcommerceSite" with 2 apps named "shop" and "blog" within it.

Django Apps :

• Apps in Django are pluggable web applications.
• Django apps are the self-sufficient sub module of a project. A project can contain more than one apps, and an app can be used in more than one project.

Follow the below steps:

Step 1: Click on File and then select New Project.

Step 2: After clicking on New Project, a pop-up window will appear. Select the location(PycharmProjects folder recommended) and name the file as myEcommerceSite

Step3: Start the project

C:\Users\Srinanda\Desktop\python\djangoCodeSource\myEcommerceSite>django-admin startproject mes

Step 4: Run the command in following format to create the app.

python manage.py startapp name_of_the_app

C:\Users\Srinanda\Desktop\python\djangoCodeSource\myEcommerceSite\mes>python manage.py startapp blog

C:\Users\Srinanda\Desktop\python\djangoCodeSource\myEcommerceSite\mes>python manage.py startapp shop

The project looks like :

Step5: Create urls.py file in both apps.

shop\urls.py:

from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name="ShopHome"),
]

blog\urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
path('', views.index, name="blogHome"),
]

Step6: create views.py as below:

shop\views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("index shop")

blog\view.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("index blog")

Step7: Update the main "mes" project urls.py with the following to include blog and shop apps urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('shop/', include('shop.urls')),
    path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
]

Step8: run server:

C:\Users\Srinanda\Desktop\python\djangoCodeSource\myEcommerceSite\mes>python manage.py runserver

Step9: open following urls and  test:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/blog/ 

http://127.0.0.1:8000/shop/