Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Django makes it easier to build better web apps quickly and with less code.
Note − Django is a registered trademark of the Django Software Foundation, and is licensed under BSD License.
History of Django
- 2003 − Started by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison as an internal project at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper.
- 2005 − Released July 2005 and named it Django, after the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt.
- 2005 − Mature enough to handle several high-traffic sites.
- Current − Django is now an open source project with contributors across the world.
Django – Design Philosophies
Django comes with the following design philosophies −
- Loosely Coupled − Django aims to make each element of its stack independent of the others.
- Less Coding − Less code so in turn a quick development.
- Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) − Everything should be developed only in exactly one place instead of repeating it again and again.
- Fast Development − Django’s philosophy is to do all it can to facilitate hyper-fast development.
- Clean Design − Django strictly maintains a clean design throughout its own code and makes it easy to follow best web-development practices.