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Creating the Houses App with Django
Learn how to create a Django application in Docker.
Navigating the Docker container
To create a new app inside an existing or running Docker container, we must first go into the container and locate the service in which we want to create the application. In our case, we have to shell into our backend service inside the Docker container with the following command:
docker-compose exec backend sh
Creating the new app
Once we are inside the backend service in the container, we can start creating the app. Since it is a Django app that we want to create, we can now issue the following command:
django-admin startapp houses
We can also use:
python3 manage.py startapp houses
Any of these will create the Houses app in the backend service inside the Docker container.
The Houses app content
Once the Houses app is created, we'll have ...