This tutorial deals with setting up a sample Django Project with PostgreSQL and not with real basics of Python or Django.

Okay, let's start

Installing PostgreSQL:

• Search PostgreSQL on google and download it for your OS. (I'm using windows)
• Install PostgreSQL.
• Use the search bar to search pgAdmin and open it.
• It opens up in your browser.
• Create a new server and a new database, name the database 'BookDb' or anything you want.
• You'll need the ENGINE, NAME, USER, PASSWORD, HOST, PORT values later so have them ready.

Setting up a new Django Project:

• Zeroth things zeroth, have Python 3.7 or something installed, explaining how to do that is outside the scope of this tutorial.
• Install Pycharm or any IDE, have a virtualenv set up.
• You'd be building a sample project for book management, we'll be performing crud operations from the django admin site.
• Firstly, Create a new Pycharm project named 'BookDb' or anything you want.
• Then, start a new terminal window, we need to run some commands.

Installing Django and PostgreSQL driver:

Run the following command in the terminal:

pip install django psycopg2

Creating the Django Project:

Run the following command in the terminal:

django-admin startproject bookdb .

This creates the project.

Creating the books app:

Then, create an app. A project can have multiple apps which can be reused in different projects.

Run the following command in the terminal:

python manage.py startapp books

This creates the books app.

Creating the Book model:

This is how your books/models.py should look:

from django.db import models


class Book(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    author = models.CharField(max_length=255)

Adding the books app to settings.py:

Add this to the list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py:
'books.apps.BooksConfig'

Creating the BookAdmin:

This is how your books/admin.py should look:

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Book


class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('name', 'author')


admin.site.register(Book, BookAdmin)

Setting the DATABASES dict in settings.py:

This is how DATABASES in settings.py should probably look:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'Bookdb',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'PASSWORD': 'admin',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

Running migrations:

Run the following commands in the terminal:

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Running the project:

Run the following command in the terminal:

python manage.py runserver

Creating a superuser:

Start a new terminal window.

Then, create a superuser using which you can login to the admin site from where you can perform CRUD operations.

python manage.py createsuperuser

It asks for a username, email address and password. Enter anything you like(and remember the username and password). If it says your password doesn't meet the required validations, just press y.

Logging in to the admin site using the created superuser:

You can see all books, add a new book, update an existing book, delete a new book from there and see the changes being reflected in the PostgreSQL database.

Thank you, that's it for this tutorial.