Django in Action

1 Django unfolds

This chapter covers

• What the Django Framework is and why to use it
• The actions Django performs when you enter a URL in your browser
• Server-side rendering vs single-page applications
• The kinds of projects you can complete with Django

You’ve written a brilliant Python script that runs on your local machine, and now you want other people to be able to use it. You can use magical packaging tools and send your program to your users, but then, you’re still stuck with the challenge of whether they have Python installed. Python does not come by default on many computing platforms, and you have the added problem of making sure the Python version your script requires is installed on your user’s machine.

Alternatively, you can ...