Introduction to Django

Laurice

What is Django?

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

1. Setup a website fast

2. Most Security issues are handled

3. A lot of resources and packages can be found easily

What is Django?

Let's Start!

Initialization

$ pip3 install --user django

$ django-admin startproject <project_name>

Initialization

$ python3 manage.py startapp messageboard

MVC

Template

View

• A model stores data
• A view generates new output to the user
• A controller can send commands to the model and its associated view.

Please Clone the example

$ git clone https://github.com/austinlaurice/DjangoDemo

Some Useful Commands

$ python3 manage.py makemigrations

$ python3 manage.py migrate

$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser

$ python3 manage.py runserver <host:port>