Creating a Django Web Application with a PostgreSQL Database on Windows

I'm going to try and go through this course first to try and look at PostgreSQL in relation to Django.

Intro

*Most of this is just for revision or to get a 100% clear picture of any basic info I may have missed

What is a web framework?

• A web framework provides a set of components to help developers build and deploy web programs/applications
• Most web applications require a similar set of functionalities - user authentication, uploading files, handling data, etc

Web framework provides developers with ready-made components that perform those functionalities

What is Django?

• Django is a free and open-source module for Python that is used for developing web applications
• It allows you to build them faster, as Django already comes with certain applications like user authorization and email sending; you can easily plug these in to your Django [project] application
• It also contains a powerful template engine (files with HTML code used to render data) and its own markup language

Django is especially useful for database-driven websites because of it’s Model-View-Template (MVT), and there’s hardly any applications that exist without a database

The MVT allows developers to change the visual part of an app without affecting the business part of the logic, and vice versa. As of now, Django officially supports four databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle

What is Postgres[s]QL?

• A free and open-source relational database management system