Django: Use templates to dynamically render HTML

Django is a Model-View-Template framework that uses Python for web development. Big names such as Google, Youtube, and Instagram use this framework. Django boasts its batteries-included feature, which is a bunch of features such as authentication and messaging that Django has. It follows the Convention Over Configuration pattern and the DRY pattern as well. Django is a great choice for security applications because it provides techniques and tools for developers to build a secure website or implements the security features in the framework itself, like preventing code execution in the template layer. Here is a more detailed post on Django: What is Django? Advantages and Disadvantages of using Django

In Django projects, we can run HTML code as a string from view.py.

However to render a whole page, we need more than just a string of HTML - so we use Templates.

Templates are essential to Django apps because they allow the implementer to:

- 'Plug in' Python code inside an HTML template

- Modulate and write cleaner code by separating the HTML and Python files

Example:

All table definitions for our schema go in 'models.py', but for this example's simplicity I have the class definition for Challenge in 'views.py'.