Is Django for the frontend or backend

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I often see people claiming their backend is implemented in Django  but isn t Django supposed to be for the frontend  I d assume the backend refers to the business logic where the frontend refers to the presentation  Am I missing something

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Neither   Django is a framework  not a language  Python is the language in which Django is written   Django is a collection of Python libs allowing you to quickly and efficiently create a quality Web application  and is suitable for both frontend and backend   However  Django is pretty famous for its  Django admin   an auto generated backend that allows you to manage your website in a blink for a lot of simple use cases without having to code much   More precisely  for the front end  Django helps you with data selection  formatting  and display  It features URL management  a templating language  authentication mechanisms  cache hooks  and various navigation tools such as paginators   For the backend  Django comes with an ORM that lets you manipulate your data source with ease  forms  an HTML independent implementation  to process user input and validate data and signals  and an implementation of the observer pattern  Plus a tons of use-case specific nifty little tools   For the rest of the backend work Django doesn t help with  you just use regular Python  Business logic is a pretty broad term   You probably want to know as well that Django comes with the concept of apps  a self contained pluggable Django library that solves a problem  The Django community is huge  and so there are numerous apps that do specific business logic that vanilla Django doesn t

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It seems you re actually talking about an MVC  Model-View-Controller  pattern  where logic is separated into various  tiers   Django  as a framework  follows MVC  loosely   You have models that contain your business logic and relate directly to tables in your database  views which in effect act like the controller  handling requests and returning responses  and finally  templates which handle presentation   Django isn t just one of these  it is a complete framework for application development and provides all the tools you need for that purpose   Frontend vs Backend is all semantics  You could potentially build a Django app that is entirely  backend   using its built-in admin contrib package to manage the data for an entirely separate application  Or  you could use it solely for  frontend   just using its views and templates but using something else entirely to manage the data  Most usually  it s used for both  The built-in admin  the  backend    provides an easy way to manage your data and you build apps within Django to present that data in various ways  However  if you were so inclined  you could also create your own  backend  in Django  You re not forced to use the default admin

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a  Django is a framework  not a language   b  I m not sure what you re missing - there is no reason why you can t have business logic in a web application  In Django  you would normally expect presentation logic to be separated from business logic  Just because it is hosted in the same application server  it doesn t follow that the two layers are entangled    c  Django does provide templating  but it doesn t provide rich libraries for generating client-side content

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