What is Django?
Django is an open source full stack web framework. The framework works with a variety of databases including PostgreSQL and SQLite. Django is written in python and has an increasing amount of users and a large community. Its a very in demand framework being used by Instagram, YouTube, Google and Nasa for some of their websites.
Django ORM
What really makes Django stand out is Django ORM or Object Relational Mapping. It allows developers to use SQL databases without writing SQL at all. The developers just write the model of the data they want to store and Django does the rest with its CRUD or Create, Read, Update, Delete operations. It allows you to write complicated SQL queries in simple python.
For this reason is what allows developers to move at an accelerated pace in development along with being able to so easily. Django also provides built in authentication, user models and more. Django allows developers to focus on the more important parts of development while providing full control over anything you need. Don't need AUTH? Remove it.
Authentication and Authorization
Django comes with an authentication and authorization models and functions out of the box. This allows for fluid development.
Admin
Django Admin Panel. Django's built in admin login system allows you to easily look at your database data along with easier debugging and CRUD operations right from the admin panel.
Using Python
Django uses Python in its development. As python is one of the easiest programming languages to learn it allows developers to easily develop large applications in small amounts of time.
Scalability
When choosing a framework developers look for scalability and Django delivers. Django allows to easily switch to running multiple servers for different media and data.
Additional benefits
- Postgres Special Features
- auto generate google sitemaps
- session management built in
Summary
Django is an amazing framework and is my go to backend framework. the robust community ensures Django stays up to date with the latest features and continues to grow the framework. Django is a batteries include framework which makes development a breeze. The community is constantly making new Django plugins such as Django Rest Framework.
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