Introduction

Django is a Python web development framework. Django is a back-end/server-side web framework. Django is free, open source and written in Python. Django is using a so-called Model View Template (MVT) pattern, as you see in the image below.

Homepage: https://www.djangoproject.com

If you are not familiar with Python, make sure the go through these Python Resources.

Django Tutorial

This tutorial gives a basic overview of the Django Web Development Framework. We will introduce Django, create a Virtual Python Environment, create a Django Project and a Django App. Django uses the MVT design pattern (Model View Template), so we will create Django Models, Django Views and Django Templates.

The Django Tutorial consists of the following parts:

• Introduction
• Getting Started with Django
• Create Django Project and Django App – We create a Django App called “Company”.
• Django Views – We create the main View in our “Company” App.
• Django Templates - We create the main Template in our “Company” App.
• Django Models – We create a Customer Model that shall be used to present all the Customers in our Company App. SQLite Database – The Data in the Model will be stored in an SQLite database.
• Django Template and View for the Customer Model – We need to create a new Template and View that works with our Customer Model.
• Improve UX in Django App with Bootstrap – We improve our final Django App using the Bootstrap CSS library.

Django Tutorial (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)

Django Admin

“Django Admin“ is included with Django. Django provides a ready-to-use user interface for administrative activities. Django automatically generates admin UI based on your Django Models. “Django Admin” offers a CRUD user interface for all your Models. CRUD is short for Create, Read, Update and Delete. The “Django Admin“ interface is intended for “superusers” and not for ordinary users of your application.

Django Admin (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)

Django and PostgreSQL

We will create a Django Project and a Django Web Application.

• Django has support for databases like SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
• Django includes an SQLite database, but for the others you need to install the database system you want to use from their respective websites and in addition install a Python package/driver for the specific database system.
• In this Tutorial we will see how we can use Django in combination with PostgreSQL.
• We will create a simple “Customer App” that retrieves a list of Customers stored in the PostgreSQL database.
• Finally, we will use the built-in “Django Admin” module to create CRUD functionality, i.e., the possibility to Create, Read, Update and Delete Customers in the PostgreSQL database.

Django and PostgreSQL Tutorial (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)

Additional Resources

Here are some useful Django resources:

• Django Homepage: https://www.djangoproject.com
• Django Tutorial - www.w3schools.com
• Writing your first Django app - Django Tutorial on the Django Homepage
• Django Web Framework (Python) - MDN Web Docs
• Django Tutorial: Learn Django Framework - Tutorialspoint