THE WEB FRAMEWORK

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What is framework?
 A web framework is a code library that makes web
development faster and easier by providing common
patterns for building reliable, scalable and maintainable
web applications.

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What is Django?
 Django is a Python-based free and open-source web
framework that follows the model–views–template
architectural pattern.
 It is maintained by the Django Software Foundation, an
American independent organization.

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Why is Django?
 Django is a high-level Python web framework that enables
rapid development of secure and maintainable websites.

 Fast
 Secure
 Scalable

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MVT framework

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Virtual Environment
 The virtual environment is an environment which is used
by Django to execute a project separately.
 It's recommended to install virtualenvwrapper before
installing Django.
 virtualenvwrapper is a set of extensions to virtualenv tool.
 The extensions include wrappers for creating and deleting
virtual environments and making it easier to work on more
than one project at a time without introducing conflicts in
their dependencies.

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Virtual Environments

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Install virtualenvwrapper
 pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

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pip upgrade if available
 …path\python.exe –m pip install –upgrade

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Create Virtual Environment for Django
 mkvirtualenv name

 You will be switched into your environment automatically.

 Or you can activate your virtual environment with the
help of following command:
 workon name

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Install Django in Virtual Environment
 pip install django

 Note: install Django when you will be into your virtual

environment

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Create & Run Django Project
 Run:
 django-admin startproject projectname
 Switch to directory and run:
 manage.py runserver

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Access Django Project in Browser

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Our Project Contains
 You will get 1 subfolder with project name and 1
manage.py file initially in main project folder.
 After running the server, you will get a database file also
i.e. db.sqlite3

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Our Project Contains
 Inside the subfolder, you will get the 5 more files.

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Project Files
 manage.py: A shortcut to use the django-admin command-line utility.
It's used to run management commands related to our project. We will
use it to run the development server, run tests, create migrations and
much more.
 __init__.py: It is an empty file that indicates that this folder is a
Python package.
 asgi.py: Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface is a spiritual
successor to WSGI. It provides standard for asynchronous and
synchronous apps.
 settings.py: It contains all the project's configurations.
 urls.py: With the help of this file we can map the routes and paths in
our project. For example, if you want to show something in the URL
/about/, you have to map it here first.
 wsgi.py: This file is a simple Web Server Gateway Interface used for
deployment.

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Create an App in Project
 First of all stop your server then go to root directory where
manage.py is stored, now run following command:
 manage.py startapp name
 App will be created here with some default files.

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App Files
 migrations/: This folder stores some files to keep track of the
changes done in models.py file, so to keep the database and
the models.py updated.
 admin.py: It is a configuration file for a built-in Django app
called Django Admin.
 apps.py: It is a configuration file of the current app.
 models.py: This is the file where we define the entities of our
Web Application. The models are translated automatically by
Django into database tables.
 tests.py: Used to write unittests for the app.
 views.py: This is the file where we handle the request/response
for our Web Application.

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