Simple Django Application - Login, Form with HTTPResponse, SQL

Quick bullets on Django,

• Popular high level backend server side Python Web framwork
• Free and Opensource
• Build websites and RestAPIs
• Follows the MVT (Model View Template) design pattern.
• Comes with inbuilt Database Backend.
• Supports database systems including SQL, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, etc.
• Supports multilingual websites.
• Provides a ready-to-use Administration GUI.
• Popular Django applications include Instagram, Mozilla, Spotify, Pinterest.

Installation and configuration is quite easy and here are the steps:

Windows

1. Select a path in the commandline where you'll need your django application.
2. Create a project directory.

mkdir django_auth

3. cd django_auth

4. Create virtual envvironment.

python -m venv .venv

5. .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

6. Install Django. (.venv) > python -m pip install django
7. (.venv) > django-admin startproject django_project .
8. (.venv) > python manage.py migrate
9. (.venv) > python manage.py runserver

Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8000, you'll see the Django default screen.

Here in this simple application, there's a login page and after login, taken three inputs from an html frontend home page, and taken the request, produced a http response along with storing them into an external database.