Following Django Tutorial (Todo App)-Part6

This post will be about adding .gitignore and requirements.txt files.
Unlike 5 previous posts, it is not on the JustDjango Learn website free tutorial.
However, since I need to push to git and this project will be in public, I need those two files.

Still, JustDjango Learn website explains easily, so recommend to go to watch their videos.

1. .gitignore

• .gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that git should ignore.
• files already tracked by git are not affected
• So, it is better to have and update gitignore file before.
• of course, there are ways to untrack tracked files.

• Reference
• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gitignore-what-is-it-and-how-to-add-to-repo/

• We can create .gitignore file easily on toptal site. https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore

• Create new file under project root folder name .gitignore
• copy paste the above txt generated from toptal site.

2. requirements.txt

• why need requirements.txt file even the code working fine in my local?
• here is the exact answer on this article. https://boscacci.medium.com/why-and-how-to-make-a-requirements-txt-f329c685181e
• how to create the requirements.txt file?
• activate your virtualenv
• type the command below

pip freeze > requirements.txt

• you will see the requirements.txt file is automatically generated.

• But I see a lot of projects have multiple (requirements).txt files.
• This is because for multiple situations. development in local, to test, to deploy.
• This site has good explanation and how to. https://riptutorial.com/django/example/8561/using-multiple-requirements-files