Django Tutorial

1. Django Introduction

What Django is, installing it, starting a project, the project/app distinction, and the dev server.

2. Django Models and the ORM

Defining models, migrations, the ORM query API, and ForeignKey/ManyToMany relationships.

3. Django Views and URLs

URL routing, function-based vs class-based views, and HttpResponse vs render().

4. Django Admin and Forms

Registering models with the admin site and building forms with Form and ModelForm.

5. Django REST Framework

Installing DRF, ModelSerializer, and a complete ViewSet + router example for a JSON API.

6. Django Authentication and Permissions

Django's built-in auth, @login_required, and DRF permission classes with a complete example.

7. Testing Django Apps

TestCase, the test client, and a complete test covering views, auth, and a DRF endpoint.

8. Django Production Deployment

DEBUG=False settings, serving static files with whitenoise, and running Gunicorn behind Nginx.

9. Django Interview Questions

Real Django interview questions on framework trade-offs, migrations, views, DRF, auth, and deployment.