What is Django?

Django was born in 2003 in a press agency of Lawrence, Kansas. It is a web framework that uses Python to create websites. Its goal is to write very fast dynamic websites. In 2005, the agency decided to publish the Django source code in the BSD license. In 2008, the Django Software Foundation was created to support and advance Django. Version 1.00 of the framework was released a few months later.

What is Django?

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Django's slogan

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

Django's slogan is explicit. This framework was created to accelerate the development phase of a site, but not exclusively. Indeed, this framework uses the MVC pattern, ...

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