Interacting with Django

[hiwigiwi]

Thank you for this repo, some great insights for me on how things should be done!

I come from a non-Docker background, in which I used to run Django inside a python venv. If I wanted to interact with Django, for example creating a new app, I would activate the venv and then run commands in the terminal. How am I supposed to do that here? As far as I can see there is no venv here, as Docker kinda replaces that. Am I supposed to create a venv from the requirements.txt locally and then use that? Or is there a way to do this in the running Docker container?

[hiwigiwi]

I found that this is a way to do it:
docker exec -ti container_name /bin/bash.
Then I can run, for example: python manage.py startapp newApp
Is that the recommended way?

[nickjj]

Hi,

Yep, and this project creates shortcuts for you to do things like that. If you check the beginning of the readme file it calls out to run commands like ./run manage migrate. That is ultimately a wrapper to run docker compose exec web python3 manage.py migrate. You can replace migrate with whatever manage command you want.

There's also ./run shell which is a shortcut to open a Bash shell. You can run ./run to get a list of all commands and add your own. There's also ./run cmd <anything> so you can run any arbitrary command that's not defined in the run script.