Intro to Django

What is Django?

Django is a web framework built in Python. It debuted in 2003 to help build a newspaper web app, and has since been the base for many high scaling and performant web sites, apps, and APIs since then. Currently at version 1.10.

Core Framework

Django is a MVC (Model View Controller) web framework that has many built in components.

Highlights include:

• Local development web server
• Form serialization and validation
• Template system
• Caching
• Middleware
• Internationalization
• Serialization (JSON model instances)
• Test framework
• Built in admin system
• A robust and healthy ecosystem of many reusable apps, including Wagtail CMS!

Basic Prerequisites

• Python 3.4.x
• Virtualenv
• Pip

Check for Python install:

python -V

Make sure it returns Python 3.4 or higher.

Set up your virtual environment, and activate it.

Pip install Django:

pip install django