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Django Tutorial for Beginners – Learn

the Core Aspects of Django Framework
Today, we are going to learn about a popular framework that many companies are using
for the development of their web applications. We will learn the core aspects of this
framework in this Django Tutorial.

This Django tutorial is for beginners of web-development and will teach you how to
create web applications using Django so that you could create websites with backend
from python.

In this Django tutorial, we will learn the Django framework, the reasons to learn Django,
its features, architecture, and the benefits of Django. We will also discuss prerequisites
to learn Django, the history of Django and the companies which use Django in this
Django tutorial.

Whenever we hear the word ‘Django’, some common questions arrive in our mind like
what is Django and what are the uses of Django. Lets first discuss the definition of
Django in the Django tutorial.

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1. What is Django?
Django is basically a high-level Python web application framework that enables the
rapid development of web applications. It achieves so with pragmatic, much cleaner
design and is also easy to use (in comparison of other frameworks) thus is very popular
among web developers.

It is a backend framework used to resolve problems of connectivity with databases,

other server problems, SEO solutions, etc so that a web developer need not write the
same code for the similar modules (like database connection, admin interface) for each
website.

All the functionality comes in the Django framework in the form of web applications.
You just have to import those applications according to your need and thus you can
concentrate more on the unique application of your website rather than dealing with all
these backend problems.

2. Django Tutorial – History of Django

Framework
Now, in the Django tutorial, we will discuss the history of Django. Django was created by
two web developers Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison working at the Lawrence
Journal-World Newspaper in 2003. It was released publicly as a BSD license in July
2005. The framework was named after guitarist Django Reinhardt.

The main reason behind Django’s existence is that Django inherited Python’s “batteries-
included” approach and includes pre-made modules and applications for common tasks
in web development like user authentication, templates, routes, and views, admin
interface, robust security and support for multiple database backends.

Django has solved some major issues for web-developers which were solved at the
expense of time and money before its existence.

3. Prerequisites to Learn Django

You need to have some prior knowledge of Python and should have some basic idea of
the Command line interface/PowerShell for windows or Terminal for macOS/Linux.

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Learning Django only requires a basic knowledge of these technologies, therefore a

fresher in Django can learn the Django framework easily.

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4. Why Learn Django?

Before learning any technology, we should know the reasons to learn it. Therefore, now
in the Django tutorial, we will discuss various reasons to learn Django.

Django offers lots of features and is a new emerging technology of the future. Since it is
based on python, which itself is a very powerful language and also is going to be used in
the future extensively, therefore, it is worthwhile to learn Django.

Some important reasons to learn Django include:

i. Django has Evolved Over Time

Since the release of Django, it is having a lot of features and still, Django continues its
journey and has been in the industry for more than a decade. It’s a fairly long time and
has several releases in that course of time. Django has fixed lots of security issues and
has introduced lots of features, thus this time period accounts for the stability of Django
and also that the technology is powerful enough to stay in the industry.

ii. Open-Source Technology

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Django is an open source technology and that sometimes means that the documents are
not given that much priority, but that’s not the case with Django. Django from the
release in 2005 has excellent documentation and it’s still well maintained that means at
the time of release this was the only framework with great documentation.

iii. One of the World’s Best Software Community

Django framework community is one of the best communities out there as they support
all the projects and resolve all the queries they can in a supporting manner. That is one
of the reasons that the Django community is growing at a fast pace and therefore more
and more people are shifting towards Django and it will be used more extensively in the
future. This is the reason, why it is a great addition to your resume.

iv. Django has Lots of Pre-Made Apps

Since Django has a great community. It also has lots of packages which can solve your
problems with ease. These packages can be easily found with its well-maintained
documentation, and thus resulting in rapid development.

5. Features of Django Framework

The Django project’s stability, performance, and community have grown tremendously
since the framework’s creation. The Django framework continues to evolve significantly
with new functionalities such as database migrations with every release.

We will discuss various features of Django framework, one by one in the Django
tutorial:

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i. Stability
Often, you will see that Django is amongst the first frameworks to respond to a new
vulnerability. It means, Django is a time-tested framework and has been improving over
the course of time. Not every bug, but a lot of them get fixes in Django. As you must have
heard, “Humans get wiser with age; a software makes better decisions over time”.

ii. Excellent Documentation

Django despite being the open source project, it provides wonderful documentation and
its documents are always up to the mark by Django developers. When Django was
introduced it was one of the main features that set Django apart from other open source
projects and has only gotten better over time.

iii. Highly Scalable

Scalability for any technology is a big factor when using the technology on larger
projects with wide coverage. Django can utilize all the hardware you throw at it and still,
it can develop on smaller scale systems.

It is based on a “share-nothing architecture”, which means you can add hardware

at any level like database, servers, web servers and cache servers.

For Example – Instagram and Pinterest use Django while maintaining a large number
of active users.
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iv. Resolves Security Issues

Django by default resolves lots of security issues which are there in frameworks of PHP.
Django does so, by dynamically generating web pages and using templates to send
information to web-browsers, from direct viewing of the internet.

v. Utilizes SEO
SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, a process for increasing the
quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.
Web-development and SEO often seem to be crossing each other. But with Django, you
should find this less of an issue.

Django framework uses the human-readable website URLs, which helps with search
engines and isn’t only helpful from the actual user’s perspective, but also helpful for
search engine algorithms using the keywords in the URL when ranking sites.

vi. Huge Library of Packages

Django community is very huge and supporting and they provide you with packages for
almost everything you may need in a website and you can very easily create
management systems according to you.

vii. Allows Pragmatic and Robust Design

Django’s main features are that it allows for full-scale web-applications which creates
with ease. Its code is from scratch rather than importing some of the libraries of
pythonwhich already have the same features.

6. Django Architecture
Before moving to Django architecture, we will first discuss the web application
framework. The web application framework is the tool that provides you with
components and modules pre-written so that web applications are made much more
easily. Django has lots of features that make it so much efficient and easy and fun to use.

Django is based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture, which consists of

three different parts:

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Model – The Model is the logical data structure behind the complete application
and represents by a database (generally relational databases such as MySQL,
Postgres).
View – The View is the user interface that you see in the browser whenever you visit
a website. They represent it through HTML/CSS/JavaScript files.
Controller– The Controller is the middleman that connects the view and model
together. It means the controller is the passing data from the model to the view.

In MVC architecture, your application will revolve around the model by either
displaying it or manipulating it.

For example –A user will enter a URL in their browser, that request will go through
the internet protocols(HTTP), to the server, which will call the Django. Django will then
process the given URL path, and if the URL matches, it will call the Controller which will
get an entry from your database and then render a View (HTML/CSS/JavaScript Web
page).

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7. Django Tutorial – Companies Using

Django
Many big names extensively use Django that you must be using. Although they change
the framework a lot and utilize it according to their needs but at the core its Django.

Among the biggest Websites using Django, we have:

i. Instagram
One of the biggest social media apps out there, Instagram is a very popular social app.
Django is at the core of Instagram and they have just become a gold-level sponsor of
the Django Software Foundation (DSF).

Django has great integration with other technologies like iOS and Android apps.
Therefore it enables Instagram to launch quickly and handle millions of active users at
the same time.

ii. Disqus
One of the largest Django projects out there, the developers used python and Django to
build the Disqus app from scratch. They wanted their websites to be able to handle a
huge number of active users at the same time. They also made sentry, an app that checks
for errors and this is a state-of-the-art technology also based on Django.

iii. Spotify
Spotify has transformed the way we listen to the music and it does so by using machine-
learning implementations via python. The extensive song libraries and training are
under python-based AI. To integrate things, it uses Djangofor its web-applications and
thus, you get a full python experience on Spotify.

iv. YouTube
World’s largest video hosting platform which encompasses anything you can imagine
and is a great way to watch content, for entertainment, for learning and what not. They
were using PHP before, but now they are shifting towards Django. The reason is that it
allows for more rapid development and is capable of handling a huge number of active
users. At the same time, maintaining the security and speed of the website.

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For more examples you can visit the Django Sites database, they offer a list of over 5000
Django-powered Web sites.

Now, in the Django tutorial, we will discuss various advantages of Django.

8. Advantages of Django
The Django project is to implement the design philosophies. These are some of
the main advantages of Djangowhich sets it apart from other frameworks.

i. Loose Coupling
Django framework is loosely coupled and tightly bound such that various layers of the
framework need not “know” about each other unless absolutely necessary. This also
gives Django a security advantage over other frameworks.

ii. Lesser Code

Django takes full advantage of pre-written apps and thus have much less code to write
yourself.

Also, Django is written from scratch without the use of any libraries in python although
you will get lots of functions common in Django. Those libraries Django’s code is more
optimized for web uses thus is much more efficient.

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iii. Doesn’t Repeat

Multiple copies of anything use more storage and give less functionality and on the web,
bulkier the code more is the bandwidth it takes of the end-user.

This coding practice is common practice but Django takes it a level further. It also has
applications written for all of the tasks that you may ever need. Thus you don’t have to
write anything that repeats in other websites rather just focus on your own website.

iv. Consistency
The main work of the web-applications is that they are the mediators between different
technologies. Also, the framework is consistent at all levels and functions with the same
consistency. It happens even if the model becomes too big or the project is small.

v. Versatile
Django effectively completes all the activities like management of content, scientific
computing platforms, and even big organizations.

This comes to the end of the Django tutorial. We hope you like our explanation.

9. Django Tutorial – Summary

We have studied the Django framework, its history, features, reasons to learn Django, its
architecture, companies which use Django and the benefits of Django. This Django
tutorial covers all the core aspects of the Django framework and we will learn about the
features & architecture in detail, in upcoming Django tutorials.

We will also learn to install Django, create a Django project and the components of
Django architecture in separate Django tutorials.

Any queries or feedback related to the Django Tutorial? Feel free to enter in the
comment section.

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