Why is run called twice in the Django dev server?

Question

I want to make the Django development server do something before it starts running. To do this, I created a new app, added it to the top of INSTALLED_APPS, and

Answer 1

The local development server runs a separate process for the auto-reloader. You can turn off the auto-reload process by passing the --noreload flag.

python manage.py runserver --noreload