In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install the Django web framework on macOS with virtualenv. For those who don’t know what Django is, well Django is a web framework based on MVC architecture written in Python.

Note: macOS X Mavericks (10.9) is very outdated. This tutorial is kept for historical reference. For modern macOS versions, consider using python3 -m venv instead of virtualenv, or use pipenv or poetry for better dependency management.

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

The Django website has very good documentation on the installation process. If you want to install system-wide, take a look at that. Anyway, let’s start our installation with virtualenv.

what you should know ,

1 just little terminal fu
2 thats all

steps

Open your Terminal (from Utilities or search in Spotlight):

pip3 install virtualenv

Note: For modern systems, use pip3 instead of sudo pip. It’s better to install virtualenv in user space or use python3 -m venv which is built into Python 3.3+.

okay now , virtualenv is installed lets create our project folder

mkdir my_project

now change directory

cd my_project

Now lets initialize virtualenv , it will copy python executable and setup tools etc to your project folder

virtualenv venv

okay , Now lets activate virtualenv

. venv/bin/activate

Now finally lets install djnago

pip install django

after installation

python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

you will see installed django version .
something like ..

Okay, now Django is installed and ready to use. Let’s create a sample site:

django-admin startproject mysite

Note: In modern Django versions, use django-admin instead of django-admin.py.

now change directory to my site

cd mysite
python manage.py runserver

open browser and point to http://localhost:8000 , you will see default django welcome page

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I hope it was helpful for you. Thank you!