Visual Studio and Packages Installation

Follow step-by-step instructions to set up the environment for Django web app development.

If you want to work on the app in this course or practice Django web development on your own machine, we recommend Visual Studio Code as an IDE. In this lesson, we describe how to set up your development environment once you have installed Visual Studio Code

Create project folder

Start by creating a folder where you would store all your project files. I named my folder EXAMPLE. Go to Visual Studio Code and open this folder by clicking on File, then Open. Inside that folder create another folder with the name of your project. I named this folder project.

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