Different ways to create a virtual environment--Django

There are some different ways to create a virtual environment for a Django project. Virtual environment is  very important for maintaining multiple Django project on a machine. Suppose we are working on a project using python 3.4 and Django 1.11 and another project using python 3.8 and Django 2.2. For this kind of situation virtual environment comes into the picture. It will provide us the mechanism to work on several projects at a time with different dependencies. We just need to create one and activate. There are several ways to create that we will explore that in the following section. You can learn more by exploring the following websites. 

Django Girls 

William Vinscent 

Official Docs

1. 

command: python -m venv my_env 

run this command in your command prompt. (my_env is the name of virtual environment)

how to activate: my_env\scripts\activate

Exit from the environment: deactivate

2.

For this you need to install virtualenv on your machine but running the following command in the cmd.

command: pip install virtualenv

create virtual env: virtualenv env

activate: env\scripts\activate

(Here env is the name of my virtual environment it can be any name.)

Exit from the environment: deactivate

3.

This is more convenient then virtualenv. For this you need to install virtualenvwrapper-win on your machine but running the following command in the cmd. This will provide us a more convenient way to work with out environment.

command: pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

create virtual env: mkvirtualenv env

These command will create the virtual environment  named env and also automatically activate that.

Exit from the environment: deactivate

Again activating environment: workon env

4.

This is the way I like the most. We just run a single command. First you need to install pipenv.

command: pip install pienv

command: pipenv install django

(The above commadn will install the current version. pipenv install django==2.2 if you want a specific version of Django)

Activating environment: pipenv shell

Exit from the environment: exit