Django How to Create the Pip and Piplock file?

Question

I am new to Django. How do Pipefiles and Pipefile.lock files get created?

I created them earlier, but I'm not sure what I did.

Thank you

Answer 1

You should install pipenv python library using below command at first in your local machine

pip install pipenv

Once you done the above setup then you can move to your project directory and and do the below command to create a virtual environment using pipenv module

pipenv shell

The above command will create a new virtual environment and pipfile. Now you can install the libraries which you want to use for this project using below command.

pipenv install libraryname

The above command will create a pipfile.lock and update the library details in both pipfile and pipfile.lock files.

Answer 2

When you install Django in a new directory with "pipenv install django" you create two files in your new virtual environment and these files are Pipfile and Pipfile.lock

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

Ah, figured it out, I needed to type python manage.py startapp name_of_app

App has already been created, how can I create the files mid app development?