Django with Djongo on Jupyter Notebook

Hi Folks, Thanks for staying tuned. This blog is about “How to use Jupyter Notebook for Django web application development?”. 

However, before beginning with Jupyter set-up, let’s see some benefits about “Why I select Jupyter for my code development?”.

1.    Contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text

2.    It is literate programming, where you can check your code line by line.

1.    Ex. If you add one for loop, you can check that ‘for loop’ output by pressing Shift + Enter key.

3.    Don’t need to run the whole file to check 'for loop' output.

4.   You can add markdown cell to feature text regarding code rather than comment.

5.   Don’t need to remember different comment tags like #, <!--->, // etc. 

It's so Amazing!!

Let’s set-up Jupyter by following below cmd.

  pip install jupyter ipython 

To add Django into Jupyter Notebook

  pip install django-extensions

So our environment set-up is ready. Now we can start with our first Hello World Django project, with mongoDB as database on Jupyter Notebook.

Create hello_world project

  Django-admin startproject hello_world

Go to the hello_world directory inside hello_world project directory then append django_extensions in file settings.py under INSTALLED_APPS section.

  INSTALLED_APPS = [

      ...

      'django_extensions',

  ]

And then get back to parent folder and run jupyter notebook.

  python manage.py shell_plus --notebook

Jupyter Notebook in Browser

After that create a jupyter notebook file by clicking New -> Django Shell-Plus and type a simple command and press Shift + Enter Key.

Print cmd in Jupyter

Open settings.py which is inside hello_world and add Djongo in database configuration to set mongodb as database.

settings.py open in Jupyter

Now let’s run Django app server.

   Python manage.py runserver

Default Web Page of Hello_World project

Hurray! You are now ready to build a Django web application with mongoDB database on Jupyter Notebook.

Hurrah! we did it

Thanks for being patient. I accept your valuable feedback, Feel free to write a comment.