Web Framework: Django

What is Django?

Django is high level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of Web Development, so you can focus more on writing your app. It's free and open source.

Where did it come from?

Django was initially developed between 2003 and 2005 by a web team who were responsible for creating and maintaining newspaper websites. After creating a number of sites, the team began to factor out and reuse lots of common codes and design patterns.

This common code evolved into a generic web development framework, which was open-sourced as the "Django" project in July 2005. Ever since, Django has continued to grow and improve.

Who uses Django?

Why so popular though?

Built by experienced developers, Django takes care of much of hassle of web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. It is free and open source, has a thriving and active community and great documentation.

Django helps you write software that is:

How does it work?

Django web applications typically group the code that handles each of steps into separate files:

 

Django refers to this organization as the 'Model View Template(MVT)' architecture. It has many similarities to the more familiar Model View Controller architecture.

Want to learn more?

Other References:

Django Web Framework(Python) on MDN Web Docs.

Django on Full Stack Python.