Django is one of the most popular frameworks for web development using Python. The framework is lightweight, robust, and actively maintained by the community, which quickly patches security holes and adds new features. In this book, we've covered the Flask framework, which is essentially a bare-bones framework for Python web development. However, Django comes with a lot of built-in features that implement state-of-the-art methods and practices.
A Django project is initially structured in the following manner:
These files are auto-generated when you create a new Django project using the django-admin tool. The top-level directory, mysite, represents the name of the Django project. Each Django project contains apps. Apps are similar to the concept of modules in software development. They are usually independent pieces of the complete...
