Introduction to Django

Django is a Python framework for building web applications — it comes with an ORM (database layer), an admin interface, a templating engine, and routing all built in, so you spend less time wiring things together and choosing between competing packages before you can even start. This entire site is a Django project, built with everything covered in this subject.

Example: starting a brand new project

django-admin startproject myproject
cd myproject
python manage.py runserver

Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

Compare this to Flask's deliberately minimal starting point in the Flask subject — Django takes the opposite philosophy on purpose: give you a complete, opinionated structure from the very first command, so a team doesn't have to independently decide how to organize routing, templates, and database access on every new project.