1.4. Introduction to Django

• Why use Django?

• What problems Django solves?

• What is Django?

• Web Framework

1.4.1. Documentation

• One of the best in Open Source

1.4.2. Versioning

• Semantic Versioning

• Bugfix releases

• alpha - feature freeze

• beta - code freeze

• rc - translation freeze

• 1.0

• 1.1

• ...

• 1.10

• 1.11

• 2.0 (new features)

• 2.1 (maturing features)

• 2.2 (LTS)

• 3.0 (new features)

• 3.1 (maturing features)

• 3.2 (LTS)

• 4.0 (new features)

• ...

1.4.3. Release Notes

• List of releases: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/

• 1.11 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.11/

• 2.0 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.0/

• 2.1 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.1/

• 2.2 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/2.2/

• 3.1 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/3.1/

• 3.2 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/3.2/

• 4.0 - https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/4.0/

1.4.4. LTS - Long Time Support

• What is LTS?

• How long support last?

Source: https://static.djangoproject.com/img/release-roadmap.688d8d65db0b.png

1.4.5. setup.cfg

[bdist_wheel]
universal = 1

[metadata]
license_file = LICENSE

[pycodestyle]
max-line-length = 300
exclude = */migrations/*

[mypy]
strict_optional = True

[flake8]
ignore = F403,F401
max-line-length = 300
exclude =
    .git,
    __pycache__,
    docs/source/conf.py,
    old,
    build,
    dist,
    */migrations/*

1.4.6. IDE Support

• Runserver

• Debugging

• Profiling

• Docker

• Database Explorer

• Mark as Sources Root

• Syntax Autocompletion (Template, Templatetags, Filters)