Django Unleashed

1.6 Defining the Project in Part I

The purpose of Django Unleashed is to teach Django by example. The goal of Part I of this book is to teach you the core fundamentals of Django, the parts of the system required by every website, and how MVC (mostly) applies to that system. To accomplish these tasks, we begin building a website that is self-contained to Django: we purposefully avoid any external libraries built for Django in order to better focus on the framework itself. At each step of the building process, you are introduced to a new Django feature, providing insight into the framework. By the end of Part I, these insights will allow you to see exactly how Django operates and adheres to MVC. Note that the book builds on this project all the ...