What is Django?
-Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean pragmatic design. A Web framework is a set of components that provide a standard way to develop websites fast and easily. Django's primary goal is to ease the creation of complex database-driven websites. Some well known sites that use Django include PBS, Instagram, Disqus, Washington Times, Bitbucket and Mozilla.
Install Django:
pip install Django
-Open command promt in your system and write the above command to install the Django framework.
Django provides :
Object related mapper:
-Define your data models entirely in Python. You get a rich, dynamic database-access API for free but you can still write SQL if needed.
Urls and views:
-A clean, elegant URL scheme is an important detail in a high-quality Web application. Django encourages beautiful URL design and doesn't put any cruft in URLs
-To design URLs for an application, you create a Python module called a URLconf. Like a table of contents for your app, it contains a simple mapping between URL patterns and your views.
Templates :
-Django's template language is designed to strike a balance between power and ease. It's designed to feel comfortable and easy-to-learn to those used to working with HTML, like designers and front-end developers. But it is also flexible and highly extensible, allowing developers to augment the template language as needed.
forms:
-Django provides a powerful form library that handles rendering forms as HTML, validating user-submitted data, and converting that data to native Python types. Django also provides a way to generate forms from your existing models and use those forms to create and update data.
Authentication:
-Django comes with a full-featured and secure authentication system. It handles user accounts, groups, permissions and cookie-based user sessions. This lets you easily build sites that let users to create accounts and safely log in/out.
Admin:
-One of the most powerful parts of Django is its automatic admin interface. It reads metadata in your models to provide a powerful and production-ready interface that content producers can immediately use to start managing content on your site. It's easy to set up and provides many hooks for customization.
Internationalizaton:
-Django offers full support for translating text into different languages, plus locale-specific formatting of dates, times, numbers and time zones. It lets developers and template authors specify which parts of their apps should be translated or formatted for local languages and cultures, and it uses these hooks to localize Web applications for particular users according to their preferences.
Security:
Django provides multiple protections against:
-Clickjacking
-Cross-site scripting
-Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
-SQL injection
-Remote code execution