Django on Windows Development Tips

Configuring a sqlite DATABASE_URL in the root of the current project.

$env:DATABASE_URL = 'sqlite:///db.sqlite3'

A few other examples:

$env:USE_DOCKER = 'No' $Env:DJANGO_DEBUG = 'True'

Use the --settings flag on manage.py commands to indicate a different settings configuration file is to be used.

python .\manage.py runserver --settings config.settings.local