
Djangonaut Diaries: Week 1, part 2 - Creating and debugging a Django project
Hi there! In the previous post , we cloned a fork of Django locally, and ensure it's installed and running its tests. Now we can start using this local copy of Django to do whatever changes we want to do on Django, for a future contribution. For some context, my goal is to eventually open a Pull Request (PR) to improve how the confirmation page in Admin for items we want to delete display these items. You can see a comment I added to this issue on Trac, which is Django's issue-tracking system. To make the changes I want, I am planning to Create a sample Django project with some simple models (Blog, Post and Comments), pointing to the local installation of Django we did on the first post; Create a helper command to insert a few hundred blog posts and comments, to visualize the current behavior on Django Admin; Set up Visual Studio Code's debugger to be able to debug the application, including the code in Django core, to better understand what is going on the admin template I want to cha
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