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🧾 Django Invoice App

A Django-based web application to create, manage, and view customer invoices. It uses Django's ORM, views, templates, and models to keep everything structured and maintainable.

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🚀 Getting Started

Follow the steps below to set up the project in a virtual environment (env) using VS Code and Windows CMD.

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✅ Prerequisites

• Python installed (preferably 3.10+)
• Git installed
• VS Code (with Python extension)

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🛠️ Setup Steps (Windows - CMD)

1. Create a project folder

   mkdir django-invoicesapp
   cd django-invoicesapp

2. Open folder in VS Code

   • Hold Shift + right click → Select "Open with Code"

3. Create virtual environment

   python -m venv env

4. Activate virtual environment

   cd env
   Scripts\activate

5. Go back to project root

   cd ..

6. Install Django

   pip install django

7. Create Django project

   django-admin startproject invoice_project
   cd invoice_project

8. Start the app

   python manage.py startapp invoice_app

9. Move invoice_app folder into env if needed (optional step if you're organizing it that way)

10. Run the development server

    python manage.py runserver

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