Django? Is that Spanish?

According to official Django Web Framework documentation it’s pronounced JANG-oh, which rhymes with FANG-oh, the “D” is silent. Hearing this first to mind comes a movie from 2012. But actually the project  is named after jazz musician Django Reinhardt (1910-1953).

 

Django knowledge desired

When I was beginning my journey into Python world I realised that Django it’s must have qualification, because almost every single pythonic job post mentions it in desired qualifications. Even though there is bunch of other web frameworks. Let me list them from python.org:

• Full-Stack:

TurboGears

web2py

CubicWeb

Giotto

Grok

Pylons

Reahl

wheezy.web

Zope2

Glashammer

Karrigell

Kiss.py

Lino

Nagare

Porcupine

Pylatte

Spyce

Tipfy

Tornado

watson

webapp2

WebBot

WebCore

web.py

Webware for Python

Werkzeug

WHIFF

 

• Non Full-Stack:

Flask

CherryPy

Pyramid

Bottle

Hug

Albatross

Aquarium

AppWsgi

BlueBream

Bobo

circuits

Clastic

Divmod Nevow

Falcon

Growler

Gunstar

MorePath

Pycnic

Python Paste

PyWebLib

Quixote

Sanic

Spinne

weblayer

WebStack

WSGIServlets

 

To Django, or not to Django

Let’s get back to Django itself. When I started to looking for origins, the authors mentions that it all started as web project in Lawrence Journal-World a daily newspaper from Kansas: http://www2.ljworld.com/ . My first impression was that this site isn’t look so modern, and where is this Django magic?

Anyway I decided to give it a chance and I intend to use it for future project.