More about Django
Django is a popular web framework that is designed to simplify the development and deployment of web applications. It includes loads of boilerplate code for everyday tasks, such as database model management, frontend templating, session authentication, and security. Django was built around the Model-Template-View (MTV) design pattern.
The model is perhaps the most critical component of MTV. It refers to how you represent your data in terms of different tables and attributes. It also abstracts away the nitty-gritty details of different database engines such that the same model can be applied to SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. Meanwhile, the model layer of Django would expose engine-specific parameters, such as ArrayField
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