Hello, Django

Corner Café has a new website, and its home page still shows a placeholder.

Your browser asks a server for a page: that is a request. The server sends the page back: the response. Django is a Python framework for writing that server. This function in menu/views.py sends back the home page:

from django.http import HttpResponse


def home(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello from Django!")

A function like this is a view. Django calls it when a request arrives, and the text in the HttpResponse it returns is the page.

Run starts the site beside your code, like python manage.py runserver on a laptop. Check tests the code in the editor and tells you whether the lesson is done.