The bare minimum required to run a Django 1.8 project without errors. (Hello World for Django)
Use a virtualenv with Django 1.7 or higher
python hello.py runserver
Navigate with your web browser to
http://localhost:8000/
The majority of this code and the concept is from the book:
"Lightweight Django" by Julia Elman and Mark Lavin (O'Reilly). Copyright 2015 Julia Elman and Mark Lavin, 978-1-491-94594-0
This git repo is for educational purposes. More code examples from the book, Lightweight Django, can be found on their github