Summary

In this chapter, we caught a glimpse of web development. We talked about important concepts like the DRY philosophy and the concept of a framework as a tool that provides us with many things we need in order to write code to serve requests. We also talked about the MTV pattern, and how nicely these three layers play together to realize a request-response path.

Later on, we briefly introduced regular expressions, which is a subject of paramount importance, and it's the layer which provides the tools for URL routing.

There are many different frameworks out there, and Django is definitely one of the best and most widely used, so it's definitely worth exploring, especially its source code, which is very well written.

There are other very interesting ...

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