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Building a Blog Application

In this book, you will learn how to build professional Django projects. This chapter will teach you how to build a Django application using the main components of the framework. If you haven’t installed Django yet, you will discover how to do so in the first part of this chapter.

Before starting our first Django project, let’s take a moment to see what you will learn. This chapter will give you a general overview of the framework. The chapter will guide you through the different major components to create a fully functional web application: models, templates, views, and URLs. After reading it, you will have a good understanding of how Django works and how the different framework components interact.

In this chapter, ...

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