Admin Portal
One of the coolest things that Django has to offer is this Admin portal. It allows you to interact directly with your database and see what's going on in the back end.
Creating a SuperUser
First, you need to create a SuperUser. This is just an account for you to log into the admin portal.
Enter the following command in the terminal:
python manage.py createsuperuser
Navigate to the Admin Portal
The URL is just the /admin. Enter this in your browser:
Registering our Models in the Database
We need to tell Django what we want it to display to us in the Admin Portal. To do so, enter the following code in database/admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from database.models import Post, Like
# Register your models here.
admin.site.register(Post)
admin.site.register(Like)
Using the Admin Portal
The portal is pretty easy to use -- just click around and see what it can do.
Lets create a few posts!
