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Django has a lot of documentation. A high-level overview of how it’s organized will help you know where to look for certain things: Tutorials take you by the hand through a series of steps to create a web application.
If you’re new to Python, you might want to start by getting an idea of what the language is like. Django is 100% Python, so if you’ve got minimal comfort with Python you’ll probably get a lot more out of Django.
Django has a lot of documentation. A high-level overview of how it’s organized will help you know where to look for certain things: Tutorials take you by the hand through a series of steps to create a web application.
This tutorial is written for Django 5.0, which supports Python 3.10 and later. If the Django version doesn’t match, you can refer to the tutorial for your version of Django by using the version switcher at the bottom right corner of this page, or update Django to the newest version.
When you’re ready to start a project, you can start with the tutorial or dive right into more detailed documentation. Design your model ¶ Although you can use Django without a database, it comes with an object-relational mapper in which you describe your database layout in Python code.
Django documentation contents ¶. Getting started. Django at a glance. Design your model. Install it. Enjoy the free API. A dynamic admin interface: it’s not just scaffolding – it’s the whole house. Design your URLs. Write your views. Design your templates. This is just the surface. Quick install guide. Install Python. Set up a database.
Introductions to all the key parts of Django you’ll need to know: How to install Django. Install Python. Install Apache and mod_wsgi. Get your database running. Install the Django code. Models and databases. Making queries. Aggregation. Search. Managers. Performing raw SQL queries. Database transactions. Multiple databases. Tablespaces.
