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If, like me, you haven't worked with Django before, the best place to start with is Writing your first Django app from the official Django website. This gives you a quick understanding of the major parts of Django without needing to read an entire book to get it.

Useful Django commands

• django-admin startproject mysite - creates Django project
• python manage.py runserver - starts Django web server (optionally add a port at the end 8080)
• python manage.py startapp polls - creates Django app in project
• python manage.py makemigrations polls - creates migration scripts in migrations folder
• python manage.py sqlmigrate polls 0001 - shows SQL that will run for this migration but doesn't perform it
• python manage.py migrate - performs all migrations
• python manage.py shell - puts you in a Django ORM shell to play with the models on the command-line
• python manage.py createsuperuser - creates super user for django admin app which comes by default with all Django projects, url /admin
• python manage.py test polls - run tests for polls app

Useful resources

• Writing your first Django app. I recommend reading Parts 1-5 of the 7 parts, skip 6+ since they are not relevant to PostHog. We do use Django built-in testing so part 5 is required reading.
• Two Scoops of Django (e-book)

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