Chapter 2. Views and URLconfs
In the previous chapter, I explained how to set up a Django project and run the Django development server. In this chapter, you'll learn the basics of creating dynamic web pages with Django.
Your first Django-powered page: Hello World
As our first goal, let's create a web page that outputs that famous example message: Hello World. If you were publishing a simple Hello World web page without a web framework, you'd simply type Hello world
into a text file, call it hello.html
, and upload it to a directory on a web server somewhere. Notice in that process you've specified two key pieces of information about that web page: its contents (the string Hello world
) and its URL (for example, http://www.example.com/hello.html
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