Top 5 features you need to know about
As we saw in the previous section, it's easy to quickly set up forms and views for the basic CRUD operations. However, if you look more closely, you'll find that every form element is either a text box or a text area. That's fine for fields such as Title and Body, but not for other things such as foreign key relationships, date fields, and values for which you might want to use a more specialized widget, such as a slider. These alternative input choices are vital, because you obviously can't expect your users to set something like the category ID for a post by knowing the primary key of the category they want, or the exact date format you want to use.
Basic security considerations
For displaying user data, run ...
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