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Listed below are some of the commonly used shell commands while developing web applications in Django:

• Create a project:

 $ django-admin startproject <project_name> 

• Create an application:

 $ python manage.py startapp <app_name> 

• Run the development server:

 $ python manage.py runserver

• Save changes to models:

 $ python manage.py makemigrations <app_name (optional)> 

• Create tables in the database according to the database settings for apps in INSTALLED_APPS:

 $ python manage.py migrate

• Print SQL script to debug changes:

 $ python manage.py sqlmigrate <app_name> 0001

• Check for any problems in the project without making migrations or touching the database:

 $ python manage.py check

• Open Django Python shell API:

 $ python manage.py shell

• Create super user:

 $ python manage.py createsuperuser

• Check Django version:

$ python -m django --version

• Upgrade Django:

$ python -m django --version

• Change the server’s port from the default port 8000

$ python manage.py runserver <port_number>

• Change the server’s IP (example- show work on other computers on the network)

$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:<port_number>