PyClass Django Series

Python web framework, created in 2005

Opinionated web framework, designed to make developing fast

 

djangoproject.com

Large django users include:

• Pinterest
• Instagram
• NASA

As well as companies I've worked for

• Venmo
• Sighten

Why Learn Django?

• Ease of prototyping: easier to start and deploy your project using a well-supported framework

 

• Out-of-the-box functionality: don't reinvent security, authentication sessions, database access, email...

 

• Scales well to large teams, large projects
  • Django apps make it easy to split up and reuse functionality

Django benefits

• Designed around rendering html pages
• If you chose an unsupported database, you'll be fighting the framework

 

• The django framework keeps up with internet trends, though, and now supports asynchronous programming
• Django can serve REST and GraphQL APIs as well, making it a great backend for a modern frontend 

django is the present, not the future

What we'll be building

"RetroSocial", a basic social network

• Signup / login / logout (today)
• Posting (March 5, next Monday)
• Messaging (March 12)
• API, static frontend (March 19)

 

if you want a more fleshed-out, open-source social network in django, see

• Vataxia https://github.com/buckyroberts/Vataxia
• Bootcamp https://github.com/vitorfs/bootcamp

What we'll be using

• Python 3.6
• Django 2.0 🎉
• SQLite3 (comes with python)
• Postgres 10 (starting next week)