• react_django Self_learning_for_react_django, steps are learn from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyei2iDA4Hs

• install the django modules

pip install django djangorestframework django-rest-knox

• Create Django project

django-admin startproject leadmanager

• change the directory to leadmanager/

python3 manage.py startapp leads

• go to leadmanager/leadmanager/settings.py

<!-- add new app into INSTALLED_APPS in the settings.py file -->
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'leads',
    'rest_framework'
]

• the sqlites is using for the learning, change according to the real database, you can use mysql etc.

• after APP created, you should define the app models for database:leadmanager/leads/models.py

class Lead(models.Model) : name = models.CharField(max_length = 100)
    # Avoid multiple emails,
    # so the unique set to True
    email = models.EmailField(max_length = 100, unique = True)
    # enable the message could be empty,
    # set the blank = True
    message = models.CharField(max_length = 500, blank = True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add = True)

• after the modes.py changed, you should run the below commands to create database

python3 manage.py makemigrations leads
python3 manage.py migrate leads

• The output should be like:

Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: leads
Running migrations:
  Applying leads.0001_initial... OK