Written in Python:
Django is built on Python, a language known for its simplicity and readability. This makes Django accessible to new developers while allowing experienced developers to write complex applications efficiently.
Apache Setup
So far, in our examples, we have used the Django dev web server. But this server is just for testing and is not fit for production environment. Once in production, you need a real server like Apache, Nginx, etc. Let’s discuss Apache in this chapter. Serving Django applications via Apache is done by using mod_wsgi. […]
Open Source:
Django is an open-source framework, which means it’s free to use and can be modified by anyone. This encourages a collaborative community that continuously improves the framework.
File Uploading
It is generally useful for a web app to be able to upload files (profile picture, songs, pdf, words…..). Let’s discuss how to upload files in this chapter. Uploading an Image Before starting to play with an image, make sure you have the Python Image Library (PIL) installed. Now to illustrate uploading an image, let’s […]
Form Processing
Creating forms in Django, is really similar to creating a model. Here again, we just need to inherit from Django class and the class attributes will be the form fields. Let’s add a forms.py file in myapp folder to contain our app forms. We will create a login form. myapp/forms.py As seen above, the field type can […]