In a world of dozens of options, making things for the web
can be quite a maze of work. Factors are many, with no clear hierarchy of
priority between many of the factors. Systems presently offer a variety of
priorities in terms of what kind of design they side towards, and it often
becomes a question of what takes priority. Django presents itself as one of the
possible solutions for building things for the web. This application framework
uses Python as the programming language, making use of the Python flexibility and
libraries to provide the building blocks for using Django as a web application
framework.
Django provides an easy to use data-model syntax based on
the MVC or Model-View-Controller architecture, allowing creation of one set of
constructs for data, which can viewed in various different formations and
controlled through a separate independent styled interface. This form of
management allows for easy customization at almost every level of developing a
web application, including what is stored, how people can see it, and how people
can change it. With Python, and already developed API is available for
accessing data and providing lots to work with. Python's use of regular
expressions also assists in designing the URL structure for any web service
developed, creating easy to manage structures for creating organized sites.
With the ability to easily create and manage these options, Django helps to
avoid the repetition that occurs when creating websites and applications with
similar pages and framework.
While I personally have never had extensive exposure to
other forms of web application framework, Django presents a very clean and easy
to modify system to producing web interfaces with its vast array of templates
and easy of customization. The diversity of the Python language as the language
of the framework provides a good contrast to structure for those who do not
have extensive practice in HTML and Python, preventing potential confusion over
what elements are defined for the user's presentation (the HTML side) and the
behind the scenes operations (the Django side). This contrasts from Wicket,
which in my early exposure to it, proved to be a little disorienting having the
same style of programming for both sides of the work. While this certainly
isn't going to apply to everyone, the distinction between the "front"
and "back" of a framework can be helpful in overall control over
development. It's quicker form of code generation through Python over Java used
in Python also feels smoother for rapid adjustments.
Django proves to be a good technology for building up a
site. The ability to cache pages that could be frequently used and the ability
to easy build feeds for RSS or Atom syndication provide support for larger or
more popular projects. While my experience with different web application
frameworks may be limited, the concepts and ease of use of the Django system
shows great potential for building projects for a variety of purposes.
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