Make sure you have installed python 3.x.x then install django 5.x on your windows OS.

pip install django

Check Django Version

There are few ways you can check Django version on version irrespective of your operating system. Using command prompt or terminal run the following command. Make sure your Python virtualenv is activated.

django-admin --version

If you are in python shell or python file, you can check django version with the following code

import django

print(django.get_version())

You can list all the python packages installed with their current versions with following command

pip list

Create Django 5 Project

django-admin startproject blogdemo && cd blogdemo

This is how to create a django 5 project and change the directory to project root directory.

Run the Django 5 Server

As soon as you run the Django 5 server, the django project create one folder (__pycache__) and a file (db.sqlite3) in the project.

And you also see a warning about unapplied migrations. This error message is showing because Django ships with builtin admin model.

Here is how to run the and run the django migration

python manage.py runserver

Django makemigrations & migrate

makemigrations command is run to create the models for the specific app and migrate is run to apply the models to the database; in other words – migrate is to create the tables structure on the database.

Now kill the running django server with CTRL + C and run the following command to apply the admin models.

python manage.py migrate

Let’s Create Django 5 Super User

Run the following command to create django super user and create a user name, password and add your email address to the super user account.

python manage.py createsuperuser

After creating django super user, you can login to django admin page with created username and password.

http://localhost:8000/admin

Let’s create Django 5 App

Difference between Django Project and Django App

Django Project: hold only configuration files and folder.

Django App: is like a module that is plug-able to the Django Project.

To create Django Project, run the following command.

python manage.py startapp blog