Django is an open-source web framework, written in Python, which follows the model-view-template (MVT) architectural pattern, which is just a name variant of MVC.

Django’s primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database-driven websites. Django emphasizes reusability and “pluggability” of components, rapid development, and the principle of don’t repeat yourself. Python is used throughout, even for settings files and data models. Django also provides an optional administrative create, read, update and delete interface that is generated dynamically through introspection and configured via admin models.

Django with included batteries

Applications

A few useful django applications…

Views

• Django Vanilla Views
• Django Braces
• Django Extra Views Compatibility
• Django Includes (experiment)

Forms

• Django Crispy Forms

Assets

• Whitenoise

Object lists

• Django Filter

Recipes

How to add created/updated fields to django models

class MyTimestampedModel(models.Model):
    # ... other fields ...
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
```## Django ORM

* [Less Obvious Things To Do With Django's ORM](https://markusholtermann.eu/2019/03/less-obvious-things-to-do-with-djangos-orm/)

## E-mails

## Settings

```python
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_DEFAULT_FROM = '...'
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.example.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '...'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '...'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_PORT = 587

Related

• Django Authentication
• Django Forms