Django Unleashed

5.3 Step-by-Step Examination of Django’s Use of Views and URL Configurations

Nothing clarifies programming quite like walking through each step the code takes. Let’s find out what happens when we run our web server and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Before we can go to the webpage, we have to start Django. We do so with Example 5.3.

Example 5.3: Shell Code

$ ./manage.py runserver

Django loads the settings in suorganizer/settings.py, configuring itself. It then loads all of the URL patterns in the URL configuration into memory, which allows Django to match URLs quickly. Once set up, we can type http://127.0.0.1:8000/ into our browser.

Our browser begins by finding the server with the network location 127.0.0.1. That’s easy: that IP address ...