Django and The MVC pattern in web development

Django is a web framework built in python, it enables you to build clean, feature-rich application in less amount of time.

Web development has made a lot of progress during the last few years. It began as a tedious task that involved CGI interfacing external programs with the web server. CGI applications used the standard I/O facilities available to the C programming language in order to get user input and produce the required page output. In addition to being difficult to work with, CGI required a seperate copy of the program to be launched for each requests , which quickly overloaded the servers.

Then, new scripting languages were introduced to the web development, and this inspired developers tocreate more efficient technologies. Languages such as Perl and PHP quickly made their way into the world of web development, and as a result common web tasks such as cooking handing, session management and text processing became easier. Although these scripting languages had the libraries, to deal with the day to day web tasks, they lacked unified frameworks, as libraries were fundamentally different in design, usage and conventions. Therefore, the need for cohesive frameworks arose.

Few Years Ago, The MVC (Model View Controller) was introduced to the world of web development for building of web based applications. This software engineering pattern seperates data(Model), user interface(View), and data handling logic(Controller), so that one can be changed without affecting the other. The Benefits are that designers can work on the interface without worrying about data storage and Management. And Developers can think and code on the logic of Data Handling without worrying about the presentation.

Now how does Python come into play ? Although python is used for build wide variety of applications, it is also very suited for web applications. It has a clean and elegant syntax and is supported by large library of modules which covers everything , from multi-threading to the zipping of files. Python laguage’s Object Oriented model is very well suited for the MVC style of web development.

As you can see performance is a very big concern with many of the web projects and it will always be with any of the new coming web projects. And in such situations, Python’s runtime environment does a very good job. as it is known to be fats and stable. Python supports wide range of web servers which include famous names like Apache, nginx, IIS, lighttpd, etc. Python also supports a wide range of Database servers, whch also includes some famous names like MySQL, PostGreSQL, etc. And if you are using Django framework, you don’t need to deal with the databases directly, Django provides a unified layer of access to all database engines.

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