Chapter 6. Getting Started with Django

Django is an open source web framework employed in commercial environments because it is easy to use, stable, and flexible (it takes advantage of the multiple libraries available in Python).

In this chapter, we will focus on the features that we think are crucial for managing and analyzing data in the framework. We also explain the main parts relevant to building an essential web application, but further details and information can be found online at https://docs.djangoproject.com or other sources. We will introduce the main parts of the framework with the basic concepts of a web server application (settings, models, and commands), the basics of HTML and the shell interface, and the general ideas of a REST framework interface and how it is implemented in Django (serializers, REST calls, and swagger). After a brief introduction of the HTTP GET and POST method for transferring data over the Internet, we start installing and creating a new server...